ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,994, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Selective content masking for collaborative computing" was invented by Dhandapani Shanmugam (Bangalore, India) and Sreenivas Makam (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine-learned sharing system and methods are provided for sharing content with users while masking sensitive information. The system receives a content stream for display to one or more users, converts the content stream into image data representative of at least a portion of the content stream, inputs the image data into a machine-learned model configured for masking sensitive...