ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,215, issued on July 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Data storage arrangement and method for anonymization aware deduplication" was invented by Assaf Natanzon (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Shay Akirav (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage arrangement includes a memory and a controller, where the controller receives an indication of data to be anonymized. The controller further parses a data element to be stored and generates a copy of one or more data portions to be anonymized. The controller further deletes one or more data portions to be anonymized to generate a modified...