ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,909, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Veeva Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for secure multi-party computation of data records" was invented by Kristyn M. Verhelle (Livonia, Mich.), Mark Vidov (Toronto), Julie Scuffins (Boyds, Md.), Christopher McDermott (Kitchener, Canada), Nikhil Vasandani (Toronto), Bruce Ritchie (Newmarket, Canada), Asaf Evenhaim (New York) and Lindsey Lofgren Doyle (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for querying one or more data records of a combined data repository includes receiving a set of raw data records. Each data record of the set includes a deidentified token. Th...