US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 20 for "Image storage across distributed computing systems" (Indian, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,988, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Image storage across distributed computing systems" was invented by Abhishek Kaul (Singapore), Sachin Gupta (Singapore), Pramod Vadayadiyil Raveendran (Bengaluru, India), Seema Nagar (Bangalore, India) and Kuntal Dey (Rampurhat, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method, system, and computer program product for storing images across multiple distributed computing systems according to image sensitivity. The method comprises identifying an image and analyzing the image to identify sensitive information in the image. The method ...