ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,873, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for privacy preservation, device, computing system and method for a computing system" was invented by Thomas Carette (Stuttgart, Germany), Alexandru Serbanati (Stuttgart, Germany) and Michelle Minelli (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including interface circuitry configured to read, from a sensor, event data indicating an event detected by the sensor and identification data indicating a first identifier (ID) of a user involved in the event. The first interface circuitry is further configured to generate a data stream...