US Patent Issued to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for anonymizing images" (New York, Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,147, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for anonymizing images" was invented by Benjamin Planche (Briarwood, N.Y.), Zikui Cai (Riverside, Calif.), Zhongpai Gao (Rowley, Mass.), Ziyan Wu (Lexington, Mass.), Meng Zheng (Cambridge, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A person's privacy is protected by the law in many settings and disclosed herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with anonymizing an image of a person while still preserving the visual saliency and/or utility of the image for one or more ...