US Patent Issued to nference on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus and a method for the anonymization of user data" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,498, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to nference Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Apparatus and a method for the anonymization of user data" was invented by Karthik Murugadoss (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sankar Ardhanari (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for the anonymization of user data is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The memory contains instructions configuring the processor to receive a plurality of user data. The memory contains instructions configuring the processor to identify a plurality of patient identifiers within the plurality o...