US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Anonymizing data in database on a server" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,114, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Anonymizing data in database on a server" was invented by Pablo Elias (Miura, Japan), Thang Minh Vu (Fuchu, Japan) and Ellie Choi (Shinagawa-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, device, and non-transitory computer-readable media for anonymizing data in a database on a server. Data obtained from a vehicle is stored in a database of a server. A vehicle identification number is removed from the data in the database. At least one specific parameter included in the data in the database is changed to create anonymized data. Access to the anonymiz...