US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 16 for "Generating privacy-preserving kernel density estimates" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,334, issued on June 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Generating privacy-preserving kernel density estimates" was invented by Tal Wagner (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yonatan Naamad (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nina Mishra (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Privacy-preserving Kernel Density Estimations (KDEs) may be provided. A data set with data subject to privacy restrictions may be sampled to generate a set of linear measurements. An amount of noise may be added to the set of linear measurements to ensure privacy. Then when shared with a recipient, the noise-modified set of linear measurements can be used ...