ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,058, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Sensitive-data-aware encoding" was invented by Debasis Ganguly (Dublin), Martin Gleize (Dublin), Pierpaolo Tommasi (Dublin) and Yufang Hou (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Submitting a data space to a provider can risk exposing sensitive information in the data space. To protect the sensitive information, the data space can be analyzed to identify features that are relevant to sensitive information and features that are relevant to a goal task. Features that are relevant to the sensitive information but are not relevant to the goal task...