ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,555, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Systems and methods for providing secure differential privacy using certifiable randomness protocols" was invented by Andrew Lang (Avon, Conn.), Marco Pistoia (Amawalk, N.Y.), Omar Amer (New York), Shouvanik Chakrabarti (Jersey City, N.J.), Niraj Kumar (Amsterdam), Pradeep Niroula (College Park, Md.) and Ruslan Shaydulin (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include: generating, by a plurality of auditor computer programs and a data curator computer program, a first random string using a first distributed randomness protocol; sending the fir...