ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,604, issued on March 18, was assigned to Privowny Inc. (Atlanta).
"Systems and methods for media privacy" was invented by Herve Le Jouan (Saint-Marc Jaumegarde, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a picture and metadata captured by a content capture system; a recognizable characteristic datastore configured to store recognizable characteristics of different users; a module configured to identify a time and a location associated with the picture based on the metadata, and to identify one or more potential target systems within a predetermined range of the location at the time; a characteristic recognition module ...