ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,728, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for protecting privacy associated with utilized content" was invented by Satish K. Singh (Chennai, India), Sankaran Raman (Chennai, India), Jagadeesh Narasimhan (Chennai, India) and Venkatesan M. Sriraman (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive, from a first user device, a first user device identifier and first privacy settings limiting content to only the first user device, and may receive, from a second user device, second privacy settings limiting content to only the second user device d...