US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 5 for "Artificial data generation for differential privacy" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,755, issued on May 5, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Artificial data generation for differential privacy" was invented by Si Er Han (Xi'an, China), Jing Xu (Xi'an, China), Xiao Ming Ma (Xi'an, China), Jing James Xu (Xi'an, China), Jiang Bo Kang (Xi'an, China), Xue Ying Zhang (Xi'an, China), Jun Wang (Xi'an, China) and Ji Hui Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment configures a plurality of parameters, the parameters being usable to generate artificial data from original data, the configuring adjusting a level of privacy in the artificial data. An embodiment fits a distribution ...