ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,113, issued on April 15, was assigned to VideoAmp Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Data clean room" was invented by Ross Anthony McCray (Pacific Palisades, Calif.), Drew Hiroshi Kanoa Goya (Los Angeles), Raja Ram Sankar (Venice, Calif.) and Leo P. Chun (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a data clean room allowing secure data analysis across multiple accounts, without the use of third parties. Each account may be associated with a different company or party. The data clean room may provide security functions to safeguard sensitive information. For example, the data clean room may ...