US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on April 7 for "Data anonymization for service subscriber's privacy" (Pennsylvania, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,842, issued on April 7, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Data anonymization for service subscriber's privacy" was invented by Jiwan L. Ninglekhu (Royersford, Pa.), Michael F. Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.), Dale N. Seed (Allentown, Pa.), Catalina Mihaela Mladin (Hatboro, Pa.), William Robert Flynn IV (Schwenksville, Pa.), Zhuo Chen (Claymont, Del.), Quang Ly (North Wales, Pa.) and Lu Liu (Conshohocken, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IoT/M2M service layer may be provided with the capability to protect user privacy. This functionality may allow the IoT/M2M service layer to anonymize user data, par...