ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,450, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for secure universal measurement identifier construction" was invented by Karn Seth (New York), Benjamin R. Kreuter (Jersey City, N.J.), John Mark Richter (Boulder, Colo.), Raimundo Mirisola (Los Angeles), Evgeny Skvortsov (Kirkland, Wash.), Craig William Wright (Louisville, Ky.) and Mariana Petrova Raykova (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising receiving, at a first computing system, encrypted identifiers, performing, by the first computing system, a concealing operation on the encrypted identifiers to produce conce...