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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2024
Nference, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Murali Aravamudan, Andover, MA (US);
Karthik Murugadoss, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sankar Ardhanari, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Ajit Rajasekharan, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Venkataramanan Soundararajan, Andover, MA (US);
Samir Awasthi, Boston, MA (US);
Tyler Wagner, Cambridge, MA (US);
Shamim Naqvi, Morristown, NJ (US);
Akash Anand, Bhagalpur, IN;
Rakesh Barve, Bengaluru, IN;
nference, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for computing with private healthcare data. The techniques include a de-identification method including receiving a text sequence; providing the text sequence to a plurality of entity tagging models, each of the plurality of entity tagging models being trained to tag one or more portions of the text sequence having a corresponding entity type; tagging one or more entities in the text sequence using the plurality of entity tagging models; and obfuscating each entity among the one or more tagged entities by replacing the entity with a surrogate, the surrogate being selected based on one or more attributes of the entity and maintaining characteristics similar to the entity being replaced.