US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 17 for "Data de-identification using semantic equivalence for machine learning" (Australian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,392, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data de-identification using semantic equivalence for machine learning" was invented by Gandhi Sivakumar (Bentleigh, Australia), Lynn Kwok (Bundoora, Australia), Kushal S. Patel (Pune, India) and Sarvesh S. Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided in which the approach detects a set of personal information data corresponding to a set of users in a set of training data. The approach transforms the set of training data into a set of semantically equivalent training data by replacing the set of personal informa...