US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Anonymizing personally identifiable information in sensor data" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,541, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Anonymizing personally identifiable information in sensor data" was invented by David Michael Herman (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Alexander George Shanku (Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive lidar data from a lidar device, generate a point cloud from the lidar data, identify an object in the point cloud, and, upon identifying the object, delete a portion of the lidar data that is from a region encompassing t...