ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,644, issued on Feb. 10.
"Optimized private ID matching between entities" was invented by Apoorvaa Deshpande (Mountain View, Calif.), Bijeeta Pal (New York), Antonios Papadimitriou (Los Angeles) and Sina Shiehian (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing private identification matching. The methods and systems store, by a first entity, a first set of private identifiers associated with a first set of data. The methods and systems group, by the first entity, different subsets of the first set of private identifiers into respective buckets of a first plurality of buckets according ...