ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,139, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Data services with privacy preservation and repeatability" was invented by Margarita Vald (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yaron Sheffer (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may receive a request to perform an operation. The processor may generate a seed derived from data required to perform the operation. The processor may generate a perturbation based on inputting the seed into a pseudorandom number generator. The processor may generate the actual result based on performing the operation. The processor may generate a perturbed result, wherein ...