ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,432, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Privacy preserving application and device error detection" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.), Marcel M. Moti Yung (New York) and David Bruce Turner (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting errors in a client device and its associated applications while preserving the privacy of the user of the device. Methods can include obtaining and blinding contextual application data for an application on a device. Data regarding the application...