US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 28 for "Privacy preserving and high performance data clustering" (Brazilian, Irish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,970, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Privacy preserving and high performance data clustering" was invented by Pedro Miguel Barbas (Dunboyne, Ireland), Deepak Kulkarni (Hyderabad, India), Christian Cesar Bones (Sao Carlos, Brazil), Guilherme Rodrigues de Abreu (Campinas, Brazil) and Rodrigo Cravo Dorea Arnez (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system for clustering data objects. Data objects are accessed. The data objects are sorted. The data objects are transformed into binary words. The binary words are encod...