ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,037, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Quantum Metric Inc. (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

"Systematic identification and masking of private data for replaying user sessions" was invented by Mario Luciano Ciabarra Jr. (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Adam Dille (Monument, Colo.) and Sean De La Torre (Dana Point, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for identifying and masking instances of private information in tracked user interactions with a network site during a network session. A scanning module can receive set of captured user interactions (e.g., movements between portions of the network site and data prov...