US Patent Issued to Verint Americas on May 27 for "Video masking of sensitive information" (Canadian, American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,436, issued on May 27, was assigned to Verint Americas Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Video masking of sensitive information" was invented by Selwyn Leeke (Vancouver, Canada), Wayne Burkett (Providence, R.I.) and Donal Ryan (Drogheda, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for masking sensitive information in a data stream, comprising: receiving a request to record an image data stream associated with a graphical user interface; instantiating a display capturer configured to capture the image data stream associated with the graphical user interface; instantiating a virtual displa...