US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on July 15 for "Privacy-preserving fuzzy query system and method" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,164, issued on July 15, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Privacy-preserving fuzzy query system and method" was invented by Erkam Uzun (Atlanta), Alexandra Boldyreva (Atlanta), Pak Ho Chung (Atlanta), Vladimir Kolesnikov (Atlanta) and Wenke Lee (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary system and method are disclosed that provide the private querying of a biometric scan, such as a person's photo, against a private database such that the client issuing the private query learns only the identity of the query if it is in the database while the server performing the processing learns nothing of the biomet...