US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on June 3 for "Method and apparatus for interactive and privacy-preserving communication between a server and a user device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,493, issued on June 3, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for interactive and privacy-preserving communication between a server and a user device" was invented by Debmalya Biswas (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Louis Beck (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for interactive communication of a user device with a server, the method including: providing, on the user device, a notification to a user of the user device; acquiring reaction data indicative of a reaction of the user to the notification; and determining, based on t...