ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,506, issued on June 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy preserving measurements using secure multi-party computation" was invented by Gang Wang (Jersey City, N.J.) and Marcel M. Moti Yung (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to using secure MPC to select digital components in ways that preserve user privacy and protects the security of data of each party that is involved in the selection process. In one aspect, a method includes performing, by a first server of a secure MPC system in collaboration with one or more second servers of the secure MPC system, a selection process to sele...