ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,728, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intercontinental Exchange Holdings Inc. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for de-identifying and transforming data representations for data queries while maintaining data privacy" was invented by John M. Sheffield (Melrose, Mass.), Robert Sinnott (Boston) and Vivek Vaghela (Ahmedabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "De-identification and transformation systems and methods are provided. Raw data may be tokenized to raw tokens may include a controlled infinite vocabulary of standardized tokens with materialized uncertainty. The raw tokens may be converted to raw hash values of an infinite vocabu...