ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,305, issued on April 1, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Privacy preserving document analysis" was invented by Nikolaos Barmpalios (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ruchi Rajiv Deshpande (Belmont, Calif.), Randy Lee Swineford (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nargol Rezvani (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andrew Marc Greene (Newton, Mass.), Shawn Alan Gaither (Raleigh, N.C.) and Michael Kraley (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for privacy preserving document analysis are described that derive insights pertaining to a digital document without communication of the content of the digital document. To do so, the privacy p...