ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,852, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Data anonymity protector" was invented by Martin Gleize (Dublin), Pierpaolo Tommasi (Dublin), Yufang Hou (Dublin) and Debasis Ganguly (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for providing enhanced data anonymity protection by a processor are disclosed. Selected portions of data intended for distribution in a communication channel or currently distributed on one or more data sources having a potential for revealing identify of a user in a public domain (and/or private domain) may be identified, where an assessment is provided indi...