ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,984, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Privacy Analytics Inc. (Ottawa).
"Machine learning for data anonymization" was invented by Grant Howard George Middleton (Toronto) and Brian Joseph Rasquinha (Ontario, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for anonymizing unstructured data. In some implementations, a server can receive unstructured data. The server can automatically detect attributes in the unstructured data using a trained machine-learning model and can determine an amount of undetected attributes and detected attributes in the unst...