ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,800, issued on July 14, was assigned to C3N Technologies Inc. (Macon, Ga.).

"Techniques for anonymizing user activity" was invented by Alexander Brantley Sheehan (Rockledge, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for anonymizing user activity. Messages from a C3N user device may be processed by a proxy application running within a containerized environment of the device. Messages may be directed to a C3N grid network for endpoints located within the C3N ecosystem and avoid the Internet entirely. User activity can be obfuscated by nodes of the grid network, which can generate and/or route fake messages along with a real messag...