ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,998, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods of identity removal in images" was invented by Amir Hossein Raffiee (Cambridge, Mass.), Keld Lundgaard (Cambridge, Mass.) and Zhichao Wang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting, at a face detection model of a server, a face of a person having a first identity in an image. A face recognition model of the server may detect an identity vector for the detected face of the person in the image. A new identity vector may be generated based on at least the detected identity vector. A revised im...