US Patent Issued to Achim Edelmann on March 31 for "Computer system and method with referral tracking for shared content" (Swiss, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,986, issued on March 31, was assigned to Achim Edelmann (Bern, Switzerland).

"Computer system and method with referral tracking for shared content" was invented by Achim Edelmann (Sahlistrasse, Switzerland), Christian Muller (Bern, Switzerland) and Marco Bastos (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking server may receive, from a requester, a content request for accessing a content element on a content server. The content request includes a request Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") with at least a content identifier specifying the requested content element on the content server, and a request referral identifier. If the conten...