ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,309, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Anonymization apparatus" was invented by Ryo Furukawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anonymization apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires boundary information indicating the boundary between clusters, specified by performing an anonymization process on predetermined data; and a dividing unit that generates an anonymized cluster set by dividing data possessed by the anonymization apparatus into a plurality of clusters based on the boundary information acquired by the acquiring unit."
The patent was filed on Jan. 10, 2024, under Application No. 18/408...