ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,326, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A. (New York).

"Method and system of computer-automated detection of personally identifiable data in electronic data" was invented by Stephen Williams (Westerville, Ohio), John C Hecker (Sunbury, Del.) and Anthony L Day (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of computer-automated detection of personally identifiable (PI) data in electronic data are provided. The method includes: receiving the electronic data including the PI data and transmitting the electronic data to a modifiable hash algorithm in a first computing environment. The metho...