ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,812, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for preventing corruption of user profiles" was invented by Sashikumar Venkataraman (Andover, Mass.), Abhijit Satchidanand Savarkar (Andover, Mass.) and Linda Beach (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure includes systems for and methods of preventing corruption of user profiles. A method falling within the disclosure includes: generating a set of rules for a first user profile based on a history of user interactions with a plurality of internet content items tracked while an applicatio...