ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,331, issued on July 21, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).
"Data processing system and method for masking sensitive data" was invented by Paul Boynton (Encinitas, Calif.), Arash John Rahmani (San Diego), Ibrahim Al-Shyoukh (Loma Linda, Calif.), Vijay Desai (San Diego), Revathi Subramanian (San Diego) and Atefeh Morsali (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, data processing system, and computer-readable storage media for responding to a user query. Receiving query from user, query pertaining to request for information. Based on query, generate prompts by masking sensitive information in query. Re...