ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,217, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Digital content delivery with privacy-preserving membership check" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.), Yue Wang (Los Altos, Calif.) and Chin-Yet Lin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting and providing digital contents to a client device are described. The system receives a request including a user membership probabilistic data structure encoding user membership information, and constructs, based on the user membership probabil...