ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,470, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems using hash keys to preserve privacy across multiple tasks" was invented by Omar Florez Choque (Oakland, Calif.) and Erik Mueller (Chevy Chase, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for using hash keys to preserve privacy across multiple tasks is disclosed. The system may provide training batch(es) of input observations each having a customer request and stored task to an encoder, and assign a hash key(s) to each of the stored tasks. The system may provide a new batch of input observations with a new customer request and new task to the enco...