US Patent Issued to Snowflake on May 27 for "Differentially private security system using gaussian noise and dynamic step size" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,418, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Differentially private security system using gaussian noise and dynamic step size" was invented by Liam James Damewood (Millbrae, Calif.), Oana Niculaescu (San Francisco), Alexander Rozenshteyn (Montvale, N.J.) and Mikhail Rudoy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example differential privacy techniques include receiving a request to perform a query on a set of data stored by a database. The request identifies a target accuracy and a maximum privacy spend. The target accuracy includes a maximum relative error. The maximum privacy spend includes a value...