US Patent Issued to Synthpop on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for anonymizing private data for use in machine learning models" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,807, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Synthpop Inc. (Wellesley, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for anonymizing private data for use in machine learning models" was invented by Jan Jannink (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Elad Ferber (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for performing a task using a trained external machine learning model. In some embodiments, a user request comprising a task and one or more protected health information (PHI) parameters associated with a patient may be received. Using one or more trained machine learning models, the PHI parameters may be extracted and a revised user r...