US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 18 for "Using secure multi-party computation and probabilistic data structures to protect access to information" (Maryland, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,547, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Using secure multi-party computation and probabilistic data structures to protect access to information" was invented by Kevin Wei Li Yeo (New York City, N.Y.) and Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems and techniques for protecting the security of information in content selection and distribution. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a first computing system of MPC systems, a digital component request including distributed point functions that represent a secret share of a respective point function...