ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,580, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ridgeline Inc. (Incline Village, Nev.).

"Deleting, auditing, and disaster recovery for personal identifiable information" was invented by Alex Daniel Ciampaglia (Incline Village, Nev.) and Wen Jie Zhou (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for deleting, auditing, and/or performing disaster recovery for personal identifiable information (PII). The method includes determining to delete from a dataset PII data corresponding to an individual, determining a PII key associated with the individual, and performing a lookup...