ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,376, issued on July 14, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Static and dynamic network device and service inventories as a mechanism to generate personalized ad profiles" was invented by Warren Keith Edwards (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for a network inventory service (NIS). An NIS may, for example, profile a private network for personalized advertising by recording a list of devices connected to the private network, recording traffic data for the private network, and generating profile associated with the private network based on the recorded list of devices and the rec...