ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,272, issued on May 5, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for locally private non-interactive communications" was invented by Badih Ghazi (San Jose, Calif.), Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar (Piedmont, Calif.), Alisa Chang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Pasin Manurangsi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for encoding data for communications with improved privacy includes obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, input data including one or more input data points. The method can include constructing, by the computing system, a net...