ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,202, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy sensitive estimation of digital resource access frequency" was invented by Pasin Manurangsi (Bangkok), Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar (Piedmont, Calif.), Pritish Kamath (Mountain View, Calif.), Badih Ghazi (Cupertino, Calif.) and Kewen Wu (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an estimate for a number of users that accessed a digital resource within a time window. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining access data for a digital ...