ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,333, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Telemetry data protection for software applications" was invented by Dhruv Joshi (Kirkland, Wash.) and Inshuya Muthukumar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-dimensional representation of an electronic document is generated which includes values that are indicative of characteristics of the document. From the multi-dimensional representation, a reduced dimension representation is generated by converting the values to a single value. A noisy representation of the reduced dimension representation is generated by at le...