ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,985, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Associating anonymous information with personally identifiable information in a non-identifiable manner" was invented by Omar Tawakol (Los Altos, Calif.) and David Abraham Wiener (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques used in methods, systems, and computer program products for associating anonymous information with personally identifiable information without sharing any personally identifiable information. A method receives a specification record comprising one ...