ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,235, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Axon Enterprise Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Identifying and redacting captured data" was invented by Marcus William Lee Womack (Redmond, Wash.), James Norton Reitz (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Nache D. Shekarri (Cave Creek, Ariz.), Daniel J. Wagner (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Mark A. Hanchett (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evidence ecosystem that includes a capture system that detects physical properties in the environment around the capture system and captures data related to the physical properties. The capture system analyzes the captured data in accordance with patterns to detect ch...