ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,053, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Privacy transformations in data analytics" was invented by Ganesh Ananthanarayanan (Seattle), Landon Prentice Cox (Seattle) and Paramvir Bahl (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing privacy transformation of data to protect privacy in data analytics under the multi-access edge computing environment. In particular, a policy receiver in an edge server receives privacy instructions. Inference determiner in the edge server in a data analytics pipeline receives data from an IoT device and ev...