ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,172, issued on July 15, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for utilizing hash-derived indexing substitution models for data deidentification" was invented by Alexander Alberstein (Clifton, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive original data to be deidentified and may select one or more dictionaries, from a plurality of dictionaries, based on the original data. The device may sort the one or more dictionaries based on an output control key to generate one or more sorted dictionaries, and may hash the original data into one or more hash codes. The device may e...