ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,003, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BUSINESS OBJECTS SOFTWARE LTD. (Dublin).

"Data anonymization for cloud analytics" was invented by Ying Wu (Dublin) and Malte Christian Kaufmann (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method including receiving numeric data of a first dataset including a plurality of columns having numeric values with one of the plurality of columns specified as a target column; generating a trained generative model based on numeric values in non-target columns of the plurality of columns; generating a trained predictive model based on numeric values in non-target columns of the plurality of columns...