ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,232, issued on March 24, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method for object detection using cropped images" was invented by Ludvig Hassbring (Lund, Sweden) and Song Yuan (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and control unit for object detection in a video stream captured with an image acquisition device, especially for the purpose of anonymizing objects in the video stream."

The patent was filed on June 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/333,890.

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