US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 24 for "Efficient garbled circuit protocol for secure multi-party computation" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,891, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient garbled circuit protocol for secure multi-party computation" was invented by Benjamin Kreuter (Jersey City, N.J.), Phillipp Schoppmann (Berlin), Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.), Mariana Raykova (New York) and Marcel M. Moti Yung (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems and techniques for using cryptography, secret sharing, secure MPC, garbled circuits, and oblivious transfer to select digital components in ways that preserve user privacy and protects the security of data of each party that is involved in the selection pro...