ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,773, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TrialAssure Inc. (Canton, Mich.).
"Date offset in document" was invented by Jin Seuk Park (Canton, Mich.) and Zachary Thomas Weingarden (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of anonymizing a digital document includes: receiving a digital source document containing text including at least one date; referring to a user-defined rule set, wherein the rule set includes at least a date offset function; and applying modifications to the digital source document according to the user-defined rule set, so as to anonymize the digital source document, the modifications includi...