US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 11 for "Differentially private heatmaps" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,850, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Differentially private heatmaps" was invented by Vidhya Navalpakkam (Mountain View, Calif.), Pasin Manurangsi (Mountain View, Calif.), Nachiappan Valliappan (Mountain View, Calif.), Kai Kohlhoff (Mountain View, Calif.), Junfeng He (Mountain View, Calif.), Badih Ghazi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved methods are provided for generating heatmaps or other summary map data from multiple users' data (e.g., probability distributions) in a manner that preserves the privacy of the u...