ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,685, issued on May 13, was assigned to The 41st Parameter Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Data structures for intelligently resolving deterministic and probabilistic device identifiers to device profiles and/or groups" was invented by Manoj Khanwalkar (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Adler Camacho (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen Van Lare (San Jose, Calif.), Omer Winkler (Cupertino, Calif.), Luke David Tuttle (Columbus, Ohio) and Surag I. Patel (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device identifier mapping and resolution system are disclosed which may be used to analyze various device identifiers associated with an o...