US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Sept. 23 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program for anonymizing data" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,327, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program for anonymizing data" was invented by Yoshiyuki Mihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With respect to an information processing device which anonymizes data composed of records including one or more items through statistical processing, the information processing device includes a memory, and a processor configured to classify respective records constituting the data into one or more first sets, based on masking target items, a dictionary, and a selected hierarchy ...