US Patent Issued to BRIGHTER AI TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 28 for "Method and system for selective and privacy-preserving anonymization" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,658, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to BRIGHTER AI TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Berlin).

"Method and system for selective and privacy-preserving anonymization" was invented by Elias Vansteenkiste (Berlin) and Marian Glaser (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application is directed at a method and system for selective anonymization, wherein the method comprises the steps of capturing visual streaming data, identifying an anonymizable object in the visual data, for which a quantized identity (y) and an individual private key (n) is determined. Based on the individual private key (n) and the quantized identity (y), the first set of encry...