US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on April 7 for "Methods and system for context-preserving sensitive data anonymization" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,843, issued on April 7, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods and system for context-preserving sensitive data anonymization" was invented by Karl Felix Joehnk (Singapore) and Romain Loic Choukroun (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for privacy-preserving transformer model training are provided. The system includes one or more data repositories in a computer network or cloud infrastructure having data stored therein. The system anonymizes the data in the one or more documents, and trains a transformer model on the data outside of the network. The data includes sensitive information. ...