ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,444, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Secure data comparison using data clean rooms" was invented by Rachel Frances Blum (South Orange, N.J.), Justin Langseth (Kailua, Hawaii) and Michael Earle Rainey (Kennewick, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for secure data comparison using data clean rooms. In an embodiment, a computer system generates a replica database based on a provider database, which stores a cross reference table that cross references a client dataset of a client database and a provider dataset of the provider database. The system receives, at...