US Patent Issued to WebShield on May 27 for "Privacy network and unified trust model for privacy preserving computation and policy enforcement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,610, issued on May 27, was assigned to WebShield Inc. (San Francisco).

"Privacy network and unified trust model for privacy preserving computation and policy enforcement" was invented by Richard Arthur Muth (San Francisco) and Jonathan Paul Hare (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A privacy network and unified trust model runs privacy algorithms that can completely obfuscate any data or rendering the data opaque and meaningless so they can be freely aggregated and shared without risk of security or privacy breach. The obfuscated algorithms can be applied to obfuscated data to produce obfuscated output. The obfuscated output...