ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,507, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cirotta Tech Ltd (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Systems and devices for protecting privacy of a user of a mobile device" was invented by Shlomo Erez (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more data protection systems are configured to be mounted on a mobile device, the data protection system being configured and operable for protecting privacy of a user of the mobile device, by preventing remotely obtaining, from the mobile device, data indicative of surroundings of the mobile device including at least one of audio data, visual data and location data."

The patent was filed on May 26, ...