US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Jan. 27 for "Efficient verification of differentially-private digital data" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,161, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Efficient verification of differentially-private digital data" was invented by Srinivasan Raghuraman (Cambridge, Mass.), Chenghong Wang (San Francisco) and Sebastian Meiser (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure enable users to efficiently verify digital data produced by queried databases, even when that data is differentially-private (e.g., satisfying the conditions of differential privacy in order to protect sensitive or private data). In addition to the query result, a database computer ca...