US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on Feb. 24 for "Data protection using pseudonymization and anonymization" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,887, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Data protection using pseudonymization and anonymization" was invented by Caleb Jones (Lake Stevens, Wash.) and Christine Tribble (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques relating to data privacy are disclosed. These techniques include identifying data fields relating to a first data record, and generating transformed data fields by transforming the data fields using one or more transformations. Each of the transformations includes at least one of: (i) a hash function or (ii) a surrogate key function. The techniques further include ...