Prosper Creative Assigned Patent

Prosper Creative Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,216,569) developed by Kawabata, Hideki, Tokyo, Japan, for a “data masking system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data conversion unit that converts all or part of first data including secret target information and a part including the secret target information, into second data for reading or viewing, a masking processing unit that performs masking processing on the second data, thereby generating masking data, a storage unit that stores the masking data, and an output unit that outputs the masking data stored in the storage unit.”

The patent application was filed on June 29, 2017 (16/314,244).