ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,192, issued on March 11, was assigned to SGROUPLES INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Social platform with enhanced privacy and integrated customization features" was invented by Jonathan Wolfe (N.E. Albuquerque, N.M.) and Mark Weinstein (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a social networking platform offering various services, such as, facilitating aggregation and management of a user's interaction on one or more social networking platforms, offering enhanced control over the level of privacy associated with the flow of user data, offering tools to customize the user's exposure to advertisement-rel...