ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,001, issued on May 6, was assigned to LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL In. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Referential data grouping and tokenization for longitudinal use of de-identified data" was invented by Jay Sultan (Bogart, Ga.), Jeffrey M. Diamond (Milton, Ga.), Jill Luber (Atlanta), Victor E. Tavernini (Davie, Fla.), Emily Mortimer (Bloomington, Minn.), Raghunandan Valluri (Cumming, Ga.), Theresa Roseanne Wu (Winter Garden, Fla.), Charles Edwards Morton (Austin, Texas) and Brian Richard Mullin (Budd Lake, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for the utilization of personally identifiable information (PII) to...