ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,916, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Personalized censorship of digital content" was invented by Alexis Johnson (Glendale, Calif.), Sonia Doshi (Los Angeles), Alexander Niedt (Loma Linda, Calif.), Rebecca Bever (Burbank, Calif.), Mara Lucien (Los Angeles), Paige Townsend (La Crescenta, Calif.) and Lori L. Huck (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for personalizing censorship of digital content. The techniques include generating, based on a user characteristic, a censorship profile associated with a user, wherein the censorship p...