ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,330, issued on July 21, was assigned to Telesign Corp. (Marina del Ray, Calif.).

"User data deidentification system for email addresses" was invented by Humberto Morales (Lynnwood, Wash.), Gordana Djankovic (Belgrade, Serbia) and Cynthia Ng (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data deidentification system that extracts insights from user data and retains both the insights and user data in a form that complies with applicable data privacy and related standards. The system receives user data, which can include personal identifying information and other sensitive data governed by one or more standards, including standards speci...