ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,393, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Balcony Labs Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"System and process for location-based anonymity and privacy" was invented by David Eli Hammel (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of enhancing privacy and anonymity for users of a computer system are provided. For example, selective anonymity for one or more users may be provided in which the one or more users may be anonymous or not, with various degrees of anonymity in between. A "vault" or other information repository may be used to save information (e.g., all information retained, all or a portion of privacy-related or pe...