ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,961, issued on March 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Secure environment for operations on private data" was invented by Carlos Cela (Mountain View, Calif.), John Tobler (Mountain View, Calif.), Brian Burdick (Mountain View, Calif.), Branton Horsley (Mountain View, Calif.), Mayank Patel (Mountain View, Calif.), Chanda Patel (Mountain View, Calif.) and Asela Gunawardana (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein provide a secure control plane (SCP), which in turn provides an isolated secure execution environment for a data plane (DP). Any arbitrary business logic can ex...