US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on June 3 for "Privacy-preserving data deduplication" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,401, issued on June 3, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Privacy-preserving data deduplication" was invented by Sunpreet Singh Arora (Union City, Calif.), Saikrishna Badrinarayanan (Fremont, Calif.), Sikhar Patranabis (Palo Alto, Calif.), Srinivasan Raghuraman (Cambridge, Mass.), Kim Wagner (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Gaven James Watson (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes a server computer receiving, from a first data provider computer, encrypted data derived from first identity data and a cryptographic key or derivative thereof stored at the first data provider comput...