US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on March 17 for "Tokenization with format preservation" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,308, issued on March 17, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Tokenization with format preservation" was invented by Rohit Joshi (Glen Allen, Va.) and Hao Cheng (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for tokenization by obfuscating a length of personal information through addition of one or more digits and modifying a base of the input string before encryption. In one process, a security string is added to a user information input string of a first length and first base to generate a second string of a longer length, a format prese...