ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,317, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cryptographic computation techniques for multi-party reach and frequency" was invented by Evgeny Skvortsov (Kirkland, Wash.) and Mariana Petrova Raykova (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting a collision when combining a first encrypted data structure and a second encrypted data structure are disclosed. The system can receive the first encrypted data structure representative of a first plurality of registers. Each register in the first plurality of registers can have an encrypted fingerprint value, and an encrypted registe...