ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,201, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and system for privacy preserving information exchange based on aggregating masked vectors from local parties" was invented by Nicolas Ferland (Santa Clara, Calif.), James Donald Reno (Scotts Valley, Calif.) and Subramanian Iyer (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system for privacy preserving information exchange in a network of electronic devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is implemented in an electronic device to serve as a local party for information exchange between the local party and a...