ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,047, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Model training method and apparatus, deidentification method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Yuchen Luo (Shenzhen, China), Junwei Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Keke He (Shenzhen, China), Wenqing Chu (Shenzhen, China), Ying Tai (Shenzhen, China) and Chengjie Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An de-identification method includes: performing sampling on a target space of a projector in a target network model to obtain N virtual identity vectors, N being a positive integer; extracting, by using an attribute extract...