US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on July 7 for "Obfuscating user data via differential privacy" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,607, issued on July 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Obfuscating user data via differential privacy" was invented by Niharendu Chandra (Glen Allen, Va.) and Abigail Tohline Wooden (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive a request for data, wherein the request is associated with one or more parameters. The device may obtain, based on receiving the request, the data. The device may generate, using the data, differentially private data via a differential privacy function that uses a privacy parameter to control a level of noise that is inserted into the data to gen...