ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,006, issued on May 12, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Dynamic privacy preserving data linkage in distributed computing systems" was invented by Kevan Ahlquist (Minneapolis), Andrew Tyler Compton (Richfield, Minn.), Michael Curtis Lindahl (Chanhassen, Minn.), Sandeep Kumar Proddaturi (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.), Manish Jyoti (Edmonds, Wash.), Srinivas R. Mudireddy (Duluth, Ga.) and Sergey Slovetskiy (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are generally described for dynamic privacy preserving data linkages. In some examples, a first data structure may store non-personal data and a s...