ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,595, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Secure and private hyper-personalization system and method" was invented by Debasish Mukhopadhyay (Sammamish, Wash.), Bryston Nitta (Redmond, Wash.) and Chen Liang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secured virtual container is enabled to securely store personal data corresponding to a user, where such data is inaccessible to processes running outside the secured virtual container. The secured virtual container may also include an execution environment for a machine learning model where the model is securely stored and inaccessib...