ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,925, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for self-governing and self-monitoring task execution for data anonymization" 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 generates tasks to execute scripts configured to anonymize database tables comprising sensitive data, determines current capacity and current availability of the processors of the system, determines current characteristics of the database tables, generates task groups for the tasks...