ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,993, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Privacy-preserving motion analysis" was invented by Tian Hao (White Plains, N.Y.), Umar Asif (Melbourne, Australia), Stefan Harrer (Sandringham, Australia), Jianbin Tang (Doncaster East, Australia), Stefan von Cavallar (Sandringham, Australia), Deval Samirbhai Mehta (Melbourne, Australia), Jeffrey L. Rogers (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.), Erhan Bilal (Westport, Conn.) and Stefan Renard Maetschke (Ascot Vale, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a structure, and a computer system for privacy-preserving motion analysis. Embodiments may...