ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,325, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Collibra Belgium BV (Brussels).

"Systems and method of contextual data masking for private and secure data linkage" was invented by Satyender Goel (Chicago), Upwan Chachra (Bothell, Wash.) and James B. Cushman II (Longboat Key, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for contextual data masking and registration. A data masking process may include classifying ingested data, processing the data, and tokenizing the data while maintaining security/privacy of the ingested data. The data masking process may include data configuration that comprises ge...