ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,164, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GoBeyond (New York).

"Method for protecting anonymity from media-based interactions" was invented by Camille Eddy (Boise, Idaho), Jennifer Halweil (New York) and Mohammad Mahee (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a computing device, method, and computer-readable medium embodiments for altering video and/or audio data during a media-based interaction to protect anonymity of one or more users in the media-based interaction for the purpose of removing bias from the media-based interaction. In some aspects, video and audio data including facial information and speech...