US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 6 for "Methods for protecting privacy" (New Jersey, New York, Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,543, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods for protecting privacy" was invented by Sarvar Patel (Montville, N.J.), Marcel M.M. Yung (New York), Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.), Karn Seth (New York), Mariana Raykova (New York), Benjamin R. Kreuter (Jersey City, N.J.) and Ananth Raghunathan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including at each of a number of client devices receiving a data item, receiving a public key from a second computing system, encrypting the data item using the public key to produce a singly encrypted data item, engaging in an oblivious pseudorandom fu...