ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,004, issued on May 12, was assigned to Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Processing query predicates involving fine-grained privacy-preserving columns" was invented by Xinying Yang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes techniques for processing query predicates involving fine-grained privacy-preserving columns. A query predicate is received. It is determined whether there is a first match between identification information and operator information in a first row of a predicate catalog table and information associated with the query predicate. It is determined whether a value ...