ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,243, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Image segmentation for anonymization for image processing" was invented by Hans-Martin Ramsl (Mannheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input image is divided into segments. The segments may be reassembled to reform the input image. The order of the segments may be stored in an encrypted database for which approved applications have the decryption key but users do not. This allows the approved applications to determine the order and reform the input image without allowing users to do the same. To further increase the difficulty of reforming the input image, ...