US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 17 for "Obfuscating 3D representation data for privacy" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,323, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Obfuscating 3D representation data for privacy" was invented by Ming Chuang (Bellevue, Wash.), Praveen Gowda Ippadi Veerabhadre Gowda (San Jose, Calif.) and Baptiste Angles (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices and methods that obtain and/or maintain a version of a 3D representation of a user's environment and provide limited access to the 3D representation to apps executing on the devices. This may involve providing changed versions of a 3D representation that obfuscate details of the 3D representation ...