US Patent Issued to Adobe on July 21 for "Face anonymization in digital images" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,325, issued on July 21, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Face anonymization in digital images" was invented by Yang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhixin Shu (San Jose, Calif.), Shabnam Ghadar (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jingwan Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jakub Fiser (Seattle), Elya Schechtman (Seattle), Cameron Y. Smith (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Baldo Antonio Faieta (San Francisco) and Alex Charles Filipkowski (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Face anonymization techniques are described that overcome conventional challenges to generate an anonymized face. In one example, a digital object editing system is configured to ...