ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,886, issued on March 3.

"Dynamic programming solution for privacy protection evaluation" was invented by Bo Jiang (Culver City, Calif.), Jian Du (Culver City, Calif.) and Qiang Yan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for evaluating privacy protection are provided. A method includes generating a first intersection of a first dataset and a second dataset. The method also includes determining a partition number based on the first dataset, the first intersection, and a number of iterations by: determining a privacy leakage for subsets of the first dataset based on the first dataset, the first intersection, and the...