ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,854, issued on April 14, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).
"Electronic tracking protection systems and methods" was invented by Iskander Sanchez Rola (Antibes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic tracking protection system and method enable receiving a particular electronic message, detecting in the particular electronic message a link including a particular uniform resource locator ("URL") including a parameter including a value. A uniqueness of the value is determined and the parameter is removed from the particular URL based on the uniqueness of the value to generate a modified URL. The particular U...