ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,006, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Generating a dynamic ID of a device for personalized application development and engagement" was invented by Deepankar Katyal (Seattle), Ashok Bhatia (San Diego), Kapil Kamra (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Karthik Balasubramanian (San Diego) and Savipal Soin (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods that may be performed by a processor of a computing device. Embodiments may include generating general inferences from personal data from the computing device in a manner that disassociates the general inferences from a user identity related to the personal da...