US Patent Issued to Protegrity US Holding on Oct. 28 for "Automatic quasi-identifier detection and recommendations" (British, American, Portuguese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,904, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Protegrity US Holding LLC (Stamford, Conn.).

"Automatic quasi-identifier detection and recommendations" was invented by Andre Castro (Lisbon, Portugal), David Clyde Williamson (Great Missenden, Great Britain), Vichai Levy (Norwalk, Conn.) and Chandan Chaitanya (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data privacy system automatically determines quasi-identifiers in a database containing individuals' records. The data privacy system applies a machine learning model to the database, the model configured to classify each record in the database and output a measure of its confidence in it...