US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Jan. 13 for "Restricted fully private conjunctive database query for protection of user privacy and identity" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,566, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Restricted fully private conjunctive database query for protection of user privacy and identity" was invented by Yee Him Cheung (Boston) and Alex Ryan Mankovich (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of securely accessing a database with sensitive data, such as the clinical information of patients, by a client in a privacy-preserving manner, including: communicating with the server to obtain tags for specific attribute-value pairs when the client is authorized to make a query; imposing a tag quota per client and restricting...