ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,995, issued on May 6, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for tokenization of personally identifiable information (PII)" was invented by Tim M. Watkins (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a data security system for enabling tokenized access to sensitive data, including a token provider configured to connect to a remote client computing device over a secure communication channel, and cause display, at the remote client computing device, of a token request user interface including a selection form listing sensitive data elements associated with a first d...