ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,838, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Adaptive privacy-preserving information retrieval" was invented by Pasin Manurangsi (Bangkok), Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar (Piedmont, Calif.), Badih Ghazi (Bangkok), Matthew Tran Clegg (Los Angeles) and Joseph Sean Cahill Goodknight Knightbrook (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for adaptive privacy-preserving information retrieval. An information server can accept from a user a request for privacy sensitive information accessible to the information server. ...