US Patent Issued to Trend Micro Incorproated on July 8 for "Protection of personally identifiable information of users on a computer network" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,592, issued on July 8, was assigned to Trend Micro Incorproated (Tokyo).

"Protection of personally identifiable information of users on a computer network" was invented by Charles Hung-Ching Cheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cybersecurity system protects personally identifiable information (PII) of users on a computer network. A webpage received in an endpoint computer of the cybersecurity system is parsed to detect one or more input fields that ask a user of the endpoint computer for a PII. Instead of entering the PII of the user into an input field, a substitute value for the PII of the user is entered into t...