ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,308, issued on June 23, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).

"Personal data anonymization system (PDAS) with customized token" was invented by Thomas Doerr (Berlin) and Dominic Wist (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device and method for protecting sensitive personal data held in a public storage, comprising a trusted tokenization system having at least one trusted interface to an instance that may provide, process, possess, and/or retrieve sensitive personal data, and at least one interface to a public storage not containing sensitive personal data, wherein the tokenization system is config...