ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,126, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) and Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).
"Sampling from binomial distribution in secure multi-party computation" was invented by Donghang Lu (Culver City, Calif.), Yongchuan Niu (Beijing), Jian Du (Culver City, Calif.) and Qiang Yan (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a random noise value for use in providing differential privacy in multiparty computation. One of the method includes receiving, by a first party participatin...