US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for image preprocessing and segmentation for visual data privacy" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,412, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for image preprocessing and segmentation for visual data privacy" was invented by Viraj Chandrakant Mantri (Hyderabad, India), Pooja Chiluvuri (Andhra Pradesh, India), Srividhya Parthasarathy (Chennai, India) and Pranusha Naandi (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive an image and may process the image, with a first model or a second model, to convert the image into a binary image. The device may generate an identifier that identifies the first model, or identifies the second model and a ...