ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,992, issued on May 20, was assigned to Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (Beijing).
"Anonymity algorithm-based data sharing privacy protection method" was invented by Sizhu Wu (Beijing), Mingkun Tang (Beijing) and Qing Qian (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The provided is an anonymity algorithm-based data sharing privacy protection method. The method includes: identifying and merging an attribute that requires privacy protection, and specifying an anonymity processing object; performing first clustering by a MSAK anonymity algorithm to divide an original data set into a plurality of first su...