ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,621, issued on May 27, was assigned to WhatsApp LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Authenticating anonymous information" was invented by Payman Mohassel (San Jose, Calif.), Shuangying Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Subodh Iyengar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sundararaman Jeyaraman (Hayward, Calif.), Chen-Kuei Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zutian Luo (Pasadena, Calif.), Ananth Raghunathan (Mountain View, Calif.), Shaahid Shaik (Fremont, Calif.), Yen-Chieh Sung (Cupertino, Calif.), Liuqing Albert Zhang (Redwood City, Calif.) and Xian Xu (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method comprising collecting analytics data or other types of...