ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,087, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Classifying data from de-identified content" was invented by Aswin Kannan (Chennai, India), Balaji Ganesan (Bengaluru, India) and Shanmukha Chaitanya Guttula (Vijayawada, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for classifying data from de-identified content are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes applying one or more rules to identify one or more structural elements of a document; determining, based at least in part on the one or more structural elements, one or more pairs o...