US Patent Issued to Georgetown University on May 5 for "Specialized computing environment for co-analysis of proprietary data" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,934, issued on May 5, was assigned to Georgetown University (Washington).

"Specialized computing environment for co-analysis of proprietary data" was invented by David Hartley (Rockville, Md.) and Ophir Frieder (Chevy Chase, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A specialized computing environment that includes hardware and data security features to enable competitive organizations to co-analyze proprietary data without revealing the underlying proprietary data to unauthorized users. Proprietary data are stored in volatile memory, which may be automatically erased according to pre-stored criteria. The analysis is performed automatically b...