US Patent Issued to Dayforce US on Dec. 9 for "De-identification of personally identifiable information" (Texas, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,719, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dayforce US Inc. (Minneapolis).

"De-identification of personally identifiable information" was invented by Shanmugaraja Krishnasamy Venugopal (Leander, Texas) and Steve VanWieren (Woodstock, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for data-driven de-identification tool that can detect personally identifiable information (PII) elements within a given dataset and apply selective mapping transformations rules to de-identify the dataset. The disclosed data de-identification tool identifies direct identifiers, quasi-identifiers and unique values wit...