US Patent Issued to Niantic on April 14 for "Anonymizing user location data in a location-based application" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,842, issued on April 14, was assigned to Niantic Inc. (San Francisco).

"Anonymizing user location data in a location-based application" was invented by Robert Keller (Los Altos, Calif.), Edward Wu (Kirkland, Wash.), Jason Chi Shun Sze (Bellevue, Wash.), Dennis Kuo-Juan Chan (San Francisco), Eric Koo (Mountain View, Calif.) and Katherine Elizabeth LaHorgue (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location-based application, such as a parallel reality game, may receive, from a client device of a user of the application, location data representing the user's position in the real-world. In one embodiment, a game platform associ...