US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 28 for "Additive and subtractive noise for privacy protection" (California, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,647, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Additive and subtractive noise for privacy protection" was invented by Gang Wang (Jersey City, N.J.), Andres Munoz Medina (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Marcel M. Moti Yung (New York), Yijian Bai (San Ramon, Calif.), Ardian Poernomo (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jingjing Wang (Redwood City, 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 using additive and subtractive noise for preserving the privacy of users. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a first set of genuine user gro...