ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,841, issued on April 7, was assigned to Trulioo (Vancouver, Canada).

"Anonymizing personal information for use in assessing fraud risk" was invented by Mauritius Schmidtler (Escondido, Calif.), Hal Lonas (Carlsbad, Calif.), Chahm An (Poway, Calif.), Nathan Russo (San Diego) and Etienne Doidic (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for anonymizing personal information are provided. A set of data may be received that includes a first subset of data that corresponds to a unique identifier, a second subset of data that corresponds to a timestamp, and a third subset of data that corresponds to a personal...