ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,770, issued on May 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Blockchain based facial anonymization system" was invented by Talal Ahmed (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Nevena Tusheva (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Dimitar Pramatarov (Neu-Isenburg, Germany) and Jorg Niemoller (Sollentuna, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by one or more network devices executing one or more smart contracts stored in a blockchain for anonymizing faces appearing in digital media content. The method includes obtaining, for each of a plurality of users, a facial model associated with that user, obtaining digital me...