US Patent Issued to Google on April 22 for "Privacy preserving machine learning using secure multi-party computation" (Maryland, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,867, issued on April 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy preserving machine learning using secure multi-party computation" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.) and Marcel M. Moti Yung (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a privacy preserving machine learning platform. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a first computing system of multiple multi-party computation (MPC) systems, an inference request that includes a first share of a given user profile. A number k of nearest neighbor user profiles that are considered most similar to the given user profile are id...