US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Computer-based privacy protection for chat groups in a virtual environment" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,514, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Computer-based privacy protection for chat groups in a virtual environment" was invented by Guang Han Sui (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Yu Zhu (Beijing), Jun Su (Beijing) and Jun Feng Duan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve the privacy of chat groups within a virtual world, in response to identifying a private chat group has been created between two or more users, embodiments collect, by an internet of things (IoT) sensor set, a voice for each user in the private chat group. Fu...