ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,800, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Privacy preserving person reidentification" was invented by Hugo Latapie (Long Beach, Calif.), Gaowen Liu (Austin, Texas), Ozkan Kilic (Long Beach, Calif.), Adam James Lawrence (Pasadena, Calif.) and Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device represents each of a plurality of objects depicted in video data captured by a plurality of cameras over time as a set of key points associated with that object. The device forms, for each of the plurality of objects, a set of timeseries of the set of ke...