US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on Feb. 24 for "Obfuscated storage and transmission of personal identifiable information" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,478, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Obfuscated storage and transmission of personal identifiable information" was invented by Andre Ming Bordokan (Hollywood, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obfuscated storage and transmission of Personal Identifiable Information (PII) includes applying a collisionable hash algorithm to each name in a dataset of potentially personal identifiable information to generate a set of obfuscated names. Applying the collisionable hash algorithm involves selecting a first group of characters from a name proceeding from left to right; selecti...