ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,311, issued on March 17, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Identify and obfuscate sensitive data before ingesting to generative AI engines" was invented by Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo (Alajuela, Costa Rica), Ilyas Iyoob (Pflugerville, Texas), Venkatapurna Parthasarathy Madhira (Frisco, Texas) and C. Steven Kurlowecz (Carlisle, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided that identifies a sensitive data in a request to an artificial intelligence (AI) engine. In one embodiment, the identifying further includes: translating the request from one natural language to other natural languages, thus creating transl...