US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on March 4 for "Privacy protection for enterprise systems" (Connecticut, Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,642, issued on March 4, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Privacy protection for enterprise systems" was invented by Mark F. Senerth (Weatogue, Conn.), Jason D. Evans (West Hartford, Conn.), Carmen Nigro (Philadelphia) and Caleb Jones (Lake Stevens, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for electronic privacy protection are disclosed. A first data record is received, including one or more sensitive data fields and one or more non-sensitive data fields. One or more encrypted data fields are generated by encrypting the one or more sensitive data fields using an encryption key. One or more hashed data...