US Patent Issued to Twilio on March 31 for "Personal data anonymization with model verification" (Colorado, California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,708, issued on March 31, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Personal data anonymization with model verification" was invented by Aaron Beach (Lakewood, Colo.), Liyuan Zhang (San Mateo, Calif.), Tiffany Callahan (Boulder, Colo.), Mengda Liu (Pittsburgh) and Shruti Vempati (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anonymization is the process to remove personal information from the data. Once the data is anonymized, the data may be used for creating machine-learning models without the risk of invading anyone's privacy. One of the keys to data anonymization is to make sure that the data is really anonymized so nobody could use ...