US Patent Issued to U.S. Bank National Association on May 27 for "Video redaction" (Georgia, California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,535, issued on May 27, was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association (Minneapolis).

"Video redaction" was invented by Soumitri Naga Kolavennu (Plymouth, Minn.), Varshini Sriram (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Priyanka Singhal (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the embodiments described herein are related to systems, methods, and computer products for performing video redaction. When performing video redaction, a video is received and converted into a plurality of frames. For each of the frames, it is detected if one or more people are present in at least one of the plurality of frames. Bounding regions are determined for th...