ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,932, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Trade Desk Inc. (Ventura, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating and querying an index associated with targeted communications" was invented by Alexander L. Schaefer (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for generating and querying an index associated with targeted communications. A method may include receiving candidate identifiers, rates of targeted communication, and traits associated with the candidate identifiers. A method may include generating a candidate index including one or more dimensions associated with candidate t...