US Patent Issued to Google on May 12 for "Cryptographically secure location-based content distribution" (Maryland, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,477, issued on May 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cryptographically secure location-based content distribution" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.) and Marcel M. Moti Yung (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for using cryptographic techniques to enhance data security and privacy and increase computational efficiency in selecting digital components are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by an MPC computer of a group of MPC computers configured to perform computations of a secure MP...