US Patent Issued to HiddenLayer on April 7 for "Selective redaction of personally identifiable information in generative artificial intelligence model outputs" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,839, issued on April 7, was assigned to HiddenLayer Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Selective redaction of personally identifiable information in generative artificial intelligence model outputs" was invented by Tanner Burns (Austin, Texas), Kwesi Cappel (Austin, Texas) and Kenneth Yeung (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output of a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model is received which is responsive to a prompt by a requestor. The output is tokenized to result in a plurality of tokens. These tokens are then used to determine that the output includes at least one string comprising personally identifiable information (PII)....