ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,240, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Protecting sensitive data in documents" was invented by Yannick Saillet (Stuttgart, Germany), Albert Maier (Tuebingen, Germany), Mike W. Grasselt (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany), Michael Baessler (Bempflingen, Germany) and Lars Bremer (Boeblingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach, a processor receives a request of a document. A processor identifies a set of datasets comprising a sensitive dataset, the set of datasets being interrelated in accordance with a relational model. A processor extracts attribute values of the ...