US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 6 for "Hardware-based protection of private content captured by a camera device" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,493, issued on May 6, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Hardware-based protection of private content captured by a camera device" was invented by Shaomin Xiong (Newark, Calif.), Lidu Huang (Danville, Calif.), Michael Andrew Brookmire (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Dongmin Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Fei Liu (Los Altos, Calif.), Yizhi Xiong (Foster City, Calif.) and Zhaochun Yu (Wilmette, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for intelligently accessing one or more different hardware-based mechanisms for cropping out, blurring or blocking private ...