ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,423, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Trade Desk Inc. (Ventura, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for associating internet devices" was invented by Jason Atlas (Seattle), Fady Kalo (London) and Jiefei Ma (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system performs data processing of raw or preprocessed data. In some embodiments, the data processing system includes a connectivity overlay engine comprising a data ingester, a connectivity generator, an event access control system, and a feature vector generation framework."

The patent was filed on July 17, 2023, under Application No. 18/222,852.

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