US Patent Issued to Apple on June 30 for "Privacy protected database querying" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,285, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Privacy protected database querying" was invented by Deima Elnatour (Santa Clara, Calif.), Elli Shapiro (London), Muhammad Mohsin K. Niazi (London), Michael B. Wood (London), Brandon J. Van Ryswyk (Los Altos, Calif.), Paul A. Youngblood (San Mateo, Calif.), Daniela S. Antonova (London), Andrew M. Bennett (North Hollywood, Calif.), Alex B. McLaughlin (Santa Monica, Calif.), Sebastien P. Sahuc (Piedmont, Calif.), Cristian B. Opris (London) and Miguel Nunes De Miranda (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are described herein to query...