ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,641, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Monitoring tracker activity of applications on an electronic device" was invented by Marion Patricia Daly (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lucas J. Russe (Aurora, Ill.), Franco Travostino (San Jose, Calif.), Joshua V. Graessley (San Jose, Calif.), Brent A. Fulgham (San Jose, Calif.), Jeffrey C. Twu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maciej Stachowiak (San Francisco) and James P. Wood (Gilroy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for monitoring tracker activity for applications on an electronic device. A monitoring process running on an...