ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,751, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ANYLINE GMBH (Vienna).

"Anonymizing textual content in image training data" was invented by Daniel Albertini (Vienna), Martin Cerman (Vienna), Michael Schwarz (Vienna) and Aniello Raffaele Patrone (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for modifying image data, the method including: loading unmodified image data; detecting at least two alphanumeric characters in an image represented by the loaded image data; selecting one or more of the detected alphanumeric characters, wherein the number of selected alphanumeric characters is smaller than the total number of detec...