US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 5 for "Anonymizing personally identifiable information in stored data" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,776, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Anonymizing personally identifiable information in stored data" was invented by Anjali Shah (Short Hills, N.J.), Neil Delima (Scarborough, Canada) and Suman Patra (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Obfuscating image data by receiving a plurality of video image frame data, detecting an object within a frame, generating a key associated with the object, matching the key to a key/value pair in a key store, generating a revised frame by replacing the object with the value, and providing the revised frame."

The patent was filed on Aug. ...