ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,581, issued on April 22, was assigned to Collibra Belgium BV (Brussels).

"Systems and methods for generating synthetic data" was invented by Gretel De Paepe (Watermaal-Bosvoorde, Belgium), Vicky Froyen (Kessel-Lo, Belgium), Kelsey Schuster (St. Louis), Michael Tandecki (Vilvoorde, Belgium) and Anna Filipiak (Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for generating synthetic data. Entities maintain large amounts of data, and conducting probability distribution and/or correlation analyses on these large datasets while maintaining data privacy for personally ident...