ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,459, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for data compaction and security with extended functionality" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.), Aliasghar Riahi (Orinda, Calif.) and Charles Yeomans (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for scriptable selective obfuscation of records comprising a data obfuscation module configured to identify and perform data anonymization on personal identifiable information (PII) contained within a plurality of records to create a partially-blurred dataset, and further comprising an encoder which receives...