ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,612, issued on March 11, was assigned to Hint Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Data aggregation and anonymization in multi-tenant networks" was invented by Joe Shea (Feasterville-Trevose, Pa.), Reddy Vijay Karthik Tummala (Pleasanton, Calif.), Muthanna Nischal Ammatanda (Fremont, Calif.) and Abraham Benjamin de Waal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a data aggregator and anonymizer is provided for selective encryption of test data. An example data aggregator and anonymizer can perform operations including receiving first order data from a first data source, the first order data including a mix of sensitiv...