US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 18 for "Secure multi-party reach and frequency estimation" (Colorado, New Jersey, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,542, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Secure multi-party reach and frequency estimation" was invented by Craig Wright (Louisville, Colo.), Laura Grace Book (Mountain View, Calif.), Sheng Ma (Belmont, Calif.), Jiayu Peng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xichen Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Benjamin R. Kreuter (Jersey City, N.J.), Evgeny Skvortsov (Kirkland, Wash.), Arthur Asuncion (Mountain View, Calif.) and James Robert Koehler (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating min-increment counting bloom filters to determine count and frequency of device identifiers and attribu...