US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 18 for "Allowing programmatic access to customer data in a privacy-preserving manner" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,270, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Allowing programmatic access to customer data in a privacy-preserving manner" was invented by Alan D. Ross (Hingham, Mass.) and Vadan Thimmegowda (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises obtaining personal identifiable information (PII) acquired by a production environment of a software application. The method further comprises transforming the PII to produce de-identified data corresponding to the PII, and enabling access to the de-identified data corresponding to the PII by a development environment of the software applicat...