ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,390, issued on June 10, was assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS (Meudon, France).

"Identity and privacy preservation in asynchronous communications" was invented by HongQian Karen Lu (Austin, Texas), Asad Ali (Austin, Texas) and Michael Hutchinson (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ensuring user privacy in a publisher-subscriber communications environment. Storing, by a user-identifier mapping server, a user-identity database mapping user identity to subscriber-anonymized user identifier and subscriber identifier for users of said plurality of subscribers. Receiving, by the user-identifier mapping server, an information-...