ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,499, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Selective anonymization for user data" was invented by Sudhakar Singh (Bengaluru, India) and Kshitij Rajesh Rao (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for selectively anonymizing user data. An embodiment operates by receiving the user data, wherein the user data comprises first data and a first prompt, and the first prompt indicates how to process the first data. The embodiment then receives an anonymization template, wherein the anonymization template specifies a profile to be...