ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,310, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Privacy safe protocol in clean room environment" was invented by Chuandong Zhou (Westminster, Colo.) and Pramod Varma (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described relating to performing various operations on third party data, including sensitive information, in a secure computing environment and enforcing privacy controls on the resulting data and metrics thereof prior to outputting that data. In some aspects, an isolated computing/execution environment may obtain execution logic from a client device for generating result ...