US Patent Issued on Aug. 11 for "Data dependent preferred region for noise generation" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,886, issued on Aug. 11.

"Data dependent preferred region for noise generation" was invented by Bo Jiang (Culver City, Calif.), Wanrong Zhang (Culver City, Calif.), Donghang Lu (Culver City, Calif.), Jian Du (Culver City, Calif.), Sagar Sharma (Culver City, Calif.) and Qiang Yan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using a preferred region that is query data dependent. One of the methods includes computing a preferred region for true query answers for a kernel differentially private mechanism using a noise value for a query for the k...