ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,628, issued on May 12, was assigned to SGROUPLES INC. (Calabasas, Calif.).

"Social platform with enhanced privacy and integrated customization features" was invented by Mark Weinstein (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jonathan Wolfe (N.E. Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a social networking platform offering various services, such as, facilitating aggregation and management of a user's interaction on one or more social networking platforms, offering enhanced control over the level of privacy associated with the flow of user data, offering tools to customize the user's exposure to advertisement-related con...