ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,410, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ResMed Sensor Technologies Ltd. (Dublin).

"System and method to provide dummy data for source attribution for proprietary data transmission" was invented by Benjamin Peter Johnston (Bella Vista, Australia) and Redmond Shouldice (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing a unique signature for proprietary data. The proprietary data may be transmitted to multiple trusted parties. Each of the trusted parties will have proprietary data with a unique signature to that trusted party. The signature allows a user to determine the source of the proprietary data breach via t...