Axis Assigned Patent

Axis AB, Lund, Sweden, has been assigned a patent (11809598) developed by Falk, Daniel, and Torres, Ralph Berger, Lund, Sweden, for “devices and methods for safe storage of media containing personal data and erasure of stored personal data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method for storing a file containing personal data comprises obtaining a temporary anonymous identifier (AnonID.m) of a person, which temporary anonymous identifier (AnonID.m) is dependent on a token (FileID.m) of the file, extracting personal data items from the file associated with the person, for each personal data item, generating a locator (Loc.m.n), which allows the personal data item to be reinstated into the file, and an item-specific anonymous identifier (AnonID.m.n) of the person, wherein the item-specific anonymous identifier is generated by applying a predefined one-way function to a combination of the temporary anonymous identifier (AnonID.m) and an identifier (n) of the personal data item, storing each personal data item together with the locator and the item-specific anonymous identifier in a first memory, and storing an anonymized version of the file without the personal data items in a second memory.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-02-03 (17/591656).