ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,949, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Privacy-preserving demand estimation across companies" was invented by Jonas Boehler (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the current subject matter are directed to privacy-preserving demand estimation. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving, by a first party, a request to provide a projection; receiving, by the first party, a key; in response to the request, performing, by the first party, a partial projection using private data of the first party without sharing the private data with at least one other party; encrypting, by th...