ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,844, issued on April 7, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for secure aggregating and reporting of monitored data" was invented by William McCarley (Grapevine, Texas) and Prem Doshi (Maywood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device described herein may maintain criteria associated with private information, and may receive action information that includes information regarding one or more actions performed by one or more systems. The device may identify a first subset of the action information that meets the criteria associated with private information, and may identify a...