ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,000, issued on May 6, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Device and method for redacting records based on a contextual correlation with a previously redacted record" was invented by Grzegorz Gustof (Myslenice, Poland), Stefan Koprowski (Myslenice, Poland), Chris A Kruegel (Plainfield, Ill.) and Stuart J Boutell (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of redacting records based on a contextual correlation with a previously redacted record. In operation, an electronic computing device obtains redaction metadata associated with a previously redacted record and uses the redaction metadata to id...