US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Aug. 12 for "Column data anonymization based on privacy category classification" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,864, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Column data anonymization based on privacy category classification" was invented by Craig E. Hawco (Toronto) and Joseph David Jensen (Riverhead, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is disclosed herein that retrieves data from a data set that includes first column data comprising a first data type and a second data type. The approach structures the first column data into second column data and third column data based on the first data type and the second data type. The approach determines a first semantic category and a second semantic category for t...