US Patent Issued to Fanplayr on June 23 for "Enhancing user identification with privacy protection across web servers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,314, issued on June 23, was assigned to Fanplayr Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Enhancing user identification with privacy protection across web servers" was invented by Rajiv Sunkara (Mountain View, Calif.), Simon Yencken (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Derek Adelman (Atherton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology teaches limiting sharing of visitor identity information across web sites, receiving from a visited web site server in a visitor's browser a page with a privacy script that runs in the browser and interfaces with a privacy ID server and third-party apps that seek visitor identification. The privacy script running in th...