US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 11 for "Method, system and apparatus for privacy enhancement mode for integrated cameras" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,800, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method, system and apparatus for privacy enhancement mode for integrated cameras" was invented by Alex Nayshtut (Gan Yaven, Israel), Dan Horovitz (Rishon LeZion, Israel), Omer Ben-Shalom (Rishon Le-Tzion, Israel), Guy Ben-Artzi (Zichron Yaacov, Israel), Miriam Engel (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Victoria Almog-Ayzenberg (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to method, system and apparatus for privacy enhancement mode for integrated cameras. In an exemplary embodiment, the disclosure allows a user of a device equipped...