ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,281, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Computing systems and methods for automatic file tokenization" was invented by Maria Nimpha Evangelista (Toronto), Jingqin Qian (Markham, Canada), Bhanu Ajay Kesani (Oshawa, Canada), Jack C. Anderson (Mooresville, N.C.) and Samaneh Miri-Ashtiani (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A file tokenization application is provided that obtains a data record, such as a table, comprising groupings of data elements. The file tokenization application may be used to tokenize and detokenize data for use in artificial intelligence applications. Each one o...