US Patent Issued to TRUATA on March 18 for "System and method for objective quantification and mitigation of privacy risk" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,115, issued on March 18, was assigned to TRUATA Ltd. (Dublin).

"System and method for objective quantification and mitigation of privacy risk" was invented by Imran Khan (Dublin), Michael Fenton (Greystones, Ireland) and Maurice Coyle (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for objective quantification and mitigation of privacy-risk of a dataset is disclosed. The system and method include an input-output (IO) interface for receiving at least one input dataset, on at least one of which a measurement of the risk is to be performed, and a configuration file governing the anonymization; a scoring engine including: a u...