ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,230, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TRUATA Ltd. (Dublin).

"System and method for guiding privacy-enhancing transformations" was invented by Imran Khan (Dublin), Maurice Coyle (Dublin), Barry Smyth (Dublin), Noel Rogers (Dublin), Michael Fenton (Greystones, Ireland), Aydin Ulas (Dublin) and Dave Fagan (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for guiding privacy-enhancing transformations are described. The system and method include a recommendation engine configured to identify sets of transformations to mitigate a privacy risk below a user specified threshold specified in-terms of privacy-risk score for a given inp...