ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,834, issued on June 2, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for generating anonymization scripts to optimize data anonymization for large databases" was invented by Rama Venkata S. Kavali (Frisco, Texas), Venugopala Rao Randhi (Hyderabad, India) and Lawrence Anthony D'Silva (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system accesses database tables comprising sensitive data, collecting data elements corresponding to the sensitive data, reduces the data elements to a distinct list of data elements, generates a first script to generate map tables for each data element, wherein each map table co...