ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,727, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KHALIFA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London) and EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS Corp. (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).
"Distance preserving hash method" was invented by Abdelrahman Ali Almahmoud (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Ernesto Damiani (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Hadi Otrok (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Yousof Ali Alhammadi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of preparing an anonymised dataset for use in data analytics. The method includes ...