ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,602, issued on July 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Privacy-safe connection recommendations" was invented by Ioannis Kotsogiannis Teftsoglou (Santa Monica, Calif.), Amit Datta (Los Angeles) and Liviu Cristea (Lynnwood, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a messaging system generates connection recommendations for a new user, who first registers with the messaging system, the signals available for generation of recommendations may be limited to the user's contact book matches. Using just this limited signal poses a concern associated with leaking information about users represented by the recommendations. ...