US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Techniques for managing activity logs in a manner that promotes user privacy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,306, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for managing activity logs in a manner that promotes user privacy" was invented by Benjamin S. Turner (San Francisco), Andreas I. Gal (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Keith W. Rauenbuehler (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are techniques for managing activity logs in a manner that promotes user privacy. One technique can by implemented by a centralized management hub, and include the steps of (1) receiving, from a peripheral device, information about activity detected by the peripheral device, where the information includes ...