ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,994, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Apparatus, method, and program product for producing synthetic fake data" was invented by Chunlin Han (Beijing), Igor Stolbikov (Apex, N.C.), Scott Li (Cary, N.C.) and Christian De Hoyos (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for producing synthetic fake data. One apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory that stores code executable by the at least one processor. The code is executable by the processor to receive, by use of the at least one processor, real data to be protected. The c...