US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on March 17 for "Anonymization of data" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,310, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Anonymization of data" was invented by Ute Rosenbaum (Kempten, Germany) and Jorge Ricardo Cuellar Jaramillo (Baierbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for anonymizing data via generalization, wherein the data includes a first number of first datasets at a first time point and a second number of second datasets at a second time point. The first datasets are a subset of the second datasets. The computer-implemented method comprises: generating a first generalization for the first datasets that fulfills a requi...