US Patent Issued to PRIVITAR on Aug. 19 for "Digital watermarking without significant information loss in anonymized datasets" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,730, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to PRIVITAR Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Digital watermarking without significant information loss in anonymized datasets" was invented by Jason McFall (London) and Paul Mellor (Tonbridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented process of altering original data in a dataset, in which original data is anonymised and a digital watermark is included in the anonymised data. Anonymising the original data incurs information loss, and the process of including the digital watermark does not add significant further information loss. The original data can be a tabular file,...