US Patent Issued to Itron on Oct. 27 for "Utility dataset anonymization" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,022, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Utility dataset anonymization" was invented by Gergely Hamos (Austin, Texas) and Vincent Paladini (Bee Cave, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data anonymization technique for datasets including personal identifiable information (PII) such as utility datasets may primarily include assigning anonymous identifiers to nodes in the dataset and swapping or otherwise moving portions of information between nodes of the dataset. The methodology of the swapping or moving operation may vary optionally based on a number of parameters, and may include swapping endpoi...