ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,475, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Protecting membership for secure computation and communication" was invented by Jian Du (Culver City, Calif.), Bo Jiang (Culver City, Calif.), Haohao Qian (Beijing) and Qiang Yan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for protecting membership privacy for secure computation and communication are provided. The method includes providing a first dataset, determining a number N based on a data privacy configuration, and generating a padding dataset having more than N elements. An intersection of the padding dataset and the first datas...