ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,586, issued on July 8, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Secure encrypted identifier data sharing" was invented by Justin Langseth (Kailua, Hawaii), Michael Earle Rainey (Kennewick, Wash.) and William L. Stratton Jr. (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a data clean room allowing encryption based data analysis across multiple accounts, including different provider database user accounts that provide user data and a network service and a requesting user that generates one or more clean room requests. The data clean room may also restrict which data may be used in the ...