US Patent Issued to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology on Sept. 16 for "Secure multi-party computation methods and apparatuses for privacy protection, and computer devices" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,399, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Secure multi-party computation methods and apparatuses for privacy protection, and computer devices" was invented by Wenqiang Ruan (Hangzhou, China), Li Wang (Hangzhou, China), Haoqi Wu (Hangzhou, China) and Weili Han (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this specification disclose secure multi-party computation for privacy protection. In an implementation, a method includes obtaining a fragment of first gradient data and a fragment of noise data, where the first gradient data is gradient data of a...