ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,601, issued on July 8, was assigned to YODLEE INC. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Synthesizing user transactional data for de-identifying sensitive information" was invented by Gaurav Singhal (Bangalore, India), Deepak Patil (Bangalore, India), Rahul Mitra (Kalyani, India) and Atif Adib (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for synthesizing user transactional data for de-identifying sensitive information. In use, transactional data of a plurality of users is identified. Additionally, the plurality of users are clustered based on the transactional data, to form ...