ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,627, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Multi-party machine learning using a database cleanroom" was invented by Orestis Kostakis (Redmond, Wash.) and Justin Langseth (Kailua, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a data sharing system implemented as a local application in a consumer database of a distributed database. The local application can include a training function and a scoring function to train a machine learning model on provider and consumer data, and generate output data by applying the trained machine learning model on input data. The inp...