US Patent Issued to THE EUROPEAN UNION, REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION on Aug. 18 for "Pseudonymisation method and computer system for performing the method" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,273, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to THE EUROPEAN UNION, REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION (Brussels).

"Pseudonymisation method and computer system for performing the method" was invented by Leucio Antonio Cutillo (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pseudonymisation method is disclosed. The pseudonymisation method comprises receiving a data subject identifier from a first data controller, the first data controller having a first data controller identifier, computing a pseudonym seed based on the data subject identifier using a cryptographic mixing function based on a pseudonym seed generation key, and computing a g...