ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,559, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Privacy safe joint identification protocol" was invented by Apoorvaa Deshpande (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technical problem of matching records in different datasets, for example a host dataset and a partner dataset storing records representing respective users, while maintaining the privacy of each dataset, is addressed by providing a privacy safe joint identification protocol. The privacy safe joint identification protocol computes respective anonymous joint identifiers for records in the two datasets. An anonymous joint identifi...