ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,734, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Third-party private set difference" was invented by Foo Yee Yeo (Shugart, Singapore) and Jason Hwei Ming Ying (Shugart, Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A third party cryptographically determines a private set difference between a data set of a first party and a data set of a second party. The third party cryptographically generates a key pair including a private key and a public key, provides the public key to the first party and the second party, receives an encrypted result from the second party, wherein the encrypted result is computed prio...