ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,105, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Data obscuring for natural language text" was invented by Benjamin Weggenmann (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Valentin Rublack (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to systems and methods for obscuring natural language data. A programmed computer may access natural language data comprising a first plurality of sequenced tokens. The programmed computer may apply an encoder model to the first plurality of sequenced tokens to generate a latent space representation of the first plurality of sequenced tokens, the latent space representatio...