US Patent Issued to GENETEC on Feb. 10 for "Method and apparatus for anonymously identifying sensitive information identifiers" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,768, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GENETEC INC. (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

"Method and apparatus for anonymously identifying sensitive information identifiers" was invented by Tahir Ali Khan (Saint-Laurent, Canada) and Mathieu Chevalier (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for identifying sensitive information identifier in a privacy-protection manner are provided. The method is performed at a first computing entity which is configured to access a set of license plate numbers and to communicate with a second computing entity which is configured to obtain a license plate number that is captured by one ...