ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,166, issued on July 15, was assigned to BeeKeeperAI Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for data obfuscation in a zero-trust environment" was invented by Mary Elizabeth Chalk (Austin, Texas), Robert Derward Rogers (Oakland, Calif.) and Alan Donald Czeszynski (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for data obfuscation are provided. Data obfuscation is needed when protecting an algorithm from reverse engineering attempts. The data is obfuscated by requesting more data from the data steward than is needed by the algorithm. If there are not enough types of data available from the data steward, "low ...