ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,660, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"App store peer group benchmarking with differential privacy" was invented by Nicholas Kistner (Cupertino, Calif.), Andrew T. Maher (Cupertino, Calif.), Artem Kirillov (Cupertino, Calif.), Daniela S. Antonova (York, Great Britain), Mahesh Molakalapalli (Fremont, Calif.), Matthew Tan Teik Hoe (Cupertino, Calif.), Maxim Martynov (Cupertino, Calif.), Rajiv J. Krishnamurthy (Cupertino, Calif.), Vivek Krishnan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yogesh V. Padte (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing peer group benchmarking with differential privacy obtainin...