ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,397, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Secure computation of shared data intersections" was invented by Joern Kussmaul (Motzingen, Germany) and Anselme Tueno (Ettlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are disclosed for providing an extended private set intersection nested cuckoo hashing scheme for secure computation of private set intersections. A set of outer hash functions and a set of inner hash functions are exchanged between a server and a client. A server outer hash table is populated using an outer hash function in the set of outer hash functions and the set of server items to c...