ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,639, issued on April 1, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for enabling differential privacy techniques" was invented by Anantha Desik Puranam Hosudurg (Hyderabad, India), Prachi Shastri (Pune, India), Ashim Roy (Pune, India), Sumiran Naman (Pune, India), Pranit Reke (Pune, India), Venkata Bala Tripura Sundari Nallamreddy (Hyderabad, India) and Nikhil Patwardhan (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Existing systems provide data selection for one differential technique considering an analytical problem or synthetic data but not an arrangement for selection of one or more technique...