ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,497, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for advanced image-based privacy preservation and protection" was invented by Kyle Haefner (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Brian A. Scriber (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided. The system includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device that includes instructions that cause the at least one processor to: a) receive an image including a plurality of objects; b) scan the image to identify one or more privacy objects in the plurality of objects in the image, wher...