US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 27 for "Privacy preservation within datasets" (California, Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,441, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Privacy preservation within datasets" was invented by Syed Kashif Hussain Shah (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kalpit Dixit (Mountain View, Calif.), Yuchen Tian (Mountain View, Calif.), Jie Ma (Seattle) and Yaser Al-Onaizan (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Documents may be evaluated to determine inclusion of one or more types of information, such as personal information. Within the documents containing the one or more types of information, individual spans of information may be replaced with alternative data, which may maintain a type of conten...