US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on May 20 for "Method and system for detection and protection of personal data in autonomous driving" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,985, issued on May 20, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Method and system for detection and protection of personal data in autonomous driving" was invented by Christian Zimmermann (Stuttgart, Germany), Sven Trieflinger (Renningen, Germany) and Stefan Gehrer (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of leveraging multiple data-collection entities to protect personal data. Image data is captured via an image sensor of a vehicle. A classifier can partition the captured image data into personal data and non-personal data, and can assign a confidence score to the personal data. If the confidence score is ...