ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,413, issued on April 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Camera tampering detection" was invented by Ali Hassani (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hafiz Malik (Canton, Mich.) and Jonathan Diedrich (Carleton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to acquire one or more images from a camera and determine first camera noise values based on the one or more images by determining reactions of camera photo receptors to light. The instructions can include further instructions to compare the first camera noise val...