US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 10 for "Privacy preserving sensor including a machine-learned object detection model" (New York, New Jersey, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,183, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Privacy preserving sensor including a machine-learned object detection model" was invented by Vikram Vasant Tank (Jersey City, N.J.), William Sumner Rutledge (Austin, Texas), Kai S. Yick (Dale City, Calif.) and Carlos Henrique Esteves Mendonca (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the disclosure is directed to lightweight sensors that enable privacy preserving detection of objects or related information present in image data. One aspect of the disclosure includes detection methods that do not require information such as motion or thermal in de...