ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,877, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Context-aware text sanitization" was invented by Yanfei Dong (Singapore), Yuan Deng (Singapore) and Soujanya Poria (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to text sanitization. Given textual data, a computer system identifies tokens predicted to constitute sensitive information. Multi-field data structures (e.g., triplets) are generated for the identified tokens that include questions, answers, and corresponding context. These data structures are supplied to a pre-trained multiple-choice question (MCQ) reading comprehension mo...