ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,150, issued on June 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"On-device privatization of multi-party attribution data" was invented by Ryan M. Rogers (Los Gatos, Calif.), Man Chun D. Leung (Daly City, Calif.), David Pardoe (Mountain View, Calif.), Bing Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Shawn F. Ren (Knoxville, Tenn.), Rahul Tandra (Santa Clara, Calif.), Parvez Ahammad (San Jose, Calif.), Jing Wang (Los Altos, Calif.), Ryan T. Tecco (Philadelphia) and Yajun Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed technologies receive first event data associated with a first party applic...