ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,573, issued on May 19, was assigned to INFORMATICA LLC (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for automated construction of data masks" was invented by Bala Kumaresan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Igor Balabine (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and computer-readable medium for generating a data masking syntactic definition for a data element of an unknown data type, including generating one or more alphabets corresponding to one or more element member positions of the data element based at least in part on element members occurring at each element member position in a plura...