ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,245, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).
"Audio recording obfuscation" was invented by Ethan Shayne (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selectively obfuscating audio. One of the methods includes detecting, by a security system for a premises, that a person who was within a threshold area for the premises was likely uttering a sound; determining, using data from one or more sensors, a likelihood that the person was communicating with the security ...