ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,110, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Searching, matching, and masking of composite formats" was invented by Ariel Farkash (Shimshit, Israel) and Micha Gideon Moffie (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor to generate regular expressions representing textual pattern facets of sub-formats of a composite format, and a regular expression representing a composite textual pattern of the composite format based on sub-format and composition type. The processor can search the data using generated regular expression representing co...