ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,783, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Privacy threat detection with extended field of view" was invented by Karunakar Palicherla Reddy (Austin, Texas), Howard Yh Huang (TPQ, Taiwan) and Yung Sheng Lin (TPE, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying potential privacy threats are described. One example method includes receiving a first set of signals from a first sensor representing information captured from an environment of the computer system in a first field of view associated with the first sensor; receiving a second set of signals from at least one second sensor repr...