US Patent Issued to Google on March 25 for "Localized cryptographic techniques for privacy protection" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,956, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Localized cryptographic techniques for privacy protection" was invented by Christopher Schneider (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for preserving user privacy when selecting content are described. In some aspects, a method includes receiving a data element identifying a set of candidate digital components and, for each candidate digital component, a set of distribution parameters for the candidate digital component. For each candidate digital component, enc...