US Patent Issued to Demostack on May 5 for "Obfuscation of personally identifiable information" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,777, issued on May 5, was assigned to Demostack Inc. (San Francisco).

"Obfuscation of personally identifiable information" was invented by Eran Meshulam Bachar (Rosh Haayin, Israel), Avraham Levi (Or Yehuda, Israel), Ofir Rabanian (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ben Sterenson (Ra'anana, Israel), Gonen Tiberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Aaron Bar Hakim (Rishon LeZion, Israel), Gilad Avidan (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yehonatan Ernest Friedman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, including defining rules for protecting sensitive data, each of the rules including a reference URL and a reference JSON data mapping to an item of the sensitive data...