ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,253, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CITIBANK N.A. (New York).

"Machine learning modeling to identify sensitive data" was invented by Shubhanshu Gupta (Singapore), Ashish Awasthi (Singapore), Amaruvi Devanathan (Chennai, India) and Mallapu Raghavulu Surya Prakash (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems herein identify and redact personally identifiable information. A PII sensitivity detection framework includes multiple layers where each layer corresponds to a computer model. The framework analyzes data stored within different data tables and predicts whether a data column includes PII. The first layer corres...