ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,831, issued on June 2, was assigned to Nice Ltd. (India).

"Systems and methods for automating sensitive data masking using generative AI" was invented by Vipul Wadhawan (Bengaluru, India), Dinesh Wadhwani (Pune, India) and Avinash Patwari (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing interaction recordings with removed personally identifiable information (PII) are disclosed, the systems and methods involving: extracting, from an interaction recording, using an automatic speech recognition engine, a timestamped recording transcript; identifying, using an artificial intelligence (AI) engine, time periods ...