US Patent Issued to BIG DATA SANTE on July 22 for "Method and system for anonymisation of time series" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,313, issued on July 22, was assigned to BIG DATA SANTE (Nantes, France).

"Method and system for anonymisation of time series" was invented by Louis Delvaux (Pierre de Bresse, France) and Olivier Breillacq (Nantes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method outputs synthetic time series as an anonymized version of time series (x1 to xE) and comprises an identification (Fb3, Fb4) of K nearest neighbors with a distance calculation law (Eq3, Eq4), and a generation (Fb5) of a first synthetic time series version (xiA(t)) corresponding to a time series (xi) by a combination (Eq6) of the K nearest neighbors. In accordance with the inve...