ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,979, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Systems and methods for detecting personal information" was invented by Ganyu Teng (Bellevue, Wash.), Chia Hsuan Wu (Vancouver, Canada), Wei Ding (Vancouver, Canada), Gjorgji Krsteski (Coquitlam, Canada), Mikhail Kuznetsov (Jersey City, N.J.) and Uday Chandrasen (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are disclosed for determining personally identifiable information in one or data file. An input data file is analyzed to determine whether it includes structured data based on an explicit indicator and/or header content. If it in...