US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 11 for "Scalable and differentially private distributed aggregation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,604, issued on March 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Scalable and differentially private distributed aggregation" was invented by Badih Ghazi (San Jose, Calif.), Rasmus Pagh (Berkeley, Calif.) and Ameya Velingker (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding process performed by a computing device (e.g., a user's private device) can include obtaining private data that includes a private value. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the computing device can produce a plurality of messages that respectively comprise a plurality of message values, where a total sum of the plurality of mes...