US Patent Issued to LiveRamp on May 12 for "Privacy preserving federated query engine" (British, American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,013, issued on May 12, was assigned to LiveRamp Inc. (San Francisco).

"Privacy preserving federated query engine" was invented by Chi Lang Ngo (London), Maciej Makowski (Warsaw, Poland), Piotr Gabryanczyk (London), David Gilmore (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Isaac Hales (Holladay, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A federated query engine system and method for multiple datasets is enhanced with privacy preserving features. It may, for example, limit the movement of data from one or more of the datasets being accessed. It may use cryptographic long-term keys, enabling fuzzy table joins that do not require a comparison of the plaintext col...