ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,959, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Database having probabilistic data structures" was invented by Sandeep Anant Nawathe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yeshwanth Vijayakumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Antonio Cuevas (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data privacy management techniques using probabilistic data structures are described. In one or more examples, a dataset record is received that includes an identity key, a respective attribute, and confidential information. A sketch is generated as a probabilistic data structure based on the identity key and the attribute. A mapping is formed of...