ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,393, issued on June 17, was assigned to Shenzhen Anke Batten Technology Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Intelligent photo album sorting and privacy protection method" was invented by Shian Li (Shenzhen, China) and Qiufang He (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention is an intelligent photo album sorting and privacy protection method. The method is applied to an image recognition model, and includes the following steps: obtaining shooting time and shooting locations of images, and acquiring latitude and longitude information of a shooting device; extracting feature information in the images; perfor...