ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,111, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Token based communications for machine learning systems" was invented by Fredrick William Rodgers (Northlake, Texas) and Michael P. Gout (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for communicating between two organizations without exchanging sensitive private information. One of the methods includes generating a token representative of private data. The method includes identifying at least one entity associated with the private data. The method includes associating the token with at least one entity. The meth...