ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,297, issued on June 30, was assigned to BUMBLE IP HOLDCO LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Privacy protection of digital image data on a social network" was invented by Daniil Baryshnikov (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for privacy protection of digital image data on a social network. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining, from a first client device associated with a first user, digital image data. The first user is one of a plurality of users of a social network. The method includes determining that the digital image data includes an image of multiple unique faces; applying, to the digital image da...