US Patent Issued to BIG DATA SANTE on Feb. 10 for "Method for evaluating the risk of re-identification of anonymised data" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,760, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BIG DATA SANTE (Nantes, France).

"Method for evaluating the risk of re-identification of anonymised data" was invented by Morgan Guillaudeux (Nantes, France) and Olivier Breillacq (Nantes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "(EN) The method of the invention provides a protection rate (txP2) representative of the risk of re-identification of data. In the case of a distance-based correspondence-seeking attack, the method comprises the steps of: a) linking an original dataset (EDO) comprising a plurality of original individuals (IO) with an anonymised dataset (EDA) comprising a plurality of anon...