ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,470, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).
"Data protection via attributes-based aggregation" was invented by Xinyu Min (Decatur, Ga.) and Rupesh Ramanlal Patel (Cumming, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for obfuscating sensitive data by aggregating the data based on data attributes are provided. Each sensitive data record contains at least one sensitive attribute. A data protection system generates a data transformation model based on the sensitive data records and transforms the sensitive data records using the data transformation model. The data protection system further compresses the se...