ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,251, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DE-IDENTIFICATION LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"System and method for reconstruction of faces from anonymized media using neural network based steganography" was invented by Eliran Kuta (Tel Aviv, Israel), Sella Blondheim (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Perry (Tel Aviv, Israel), Matan Ben Yosef (Korazim, Israel), Yoav Hacohen (Jerusalem) and Or Gorodissky (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for concealing and revealing a human face in media objects may include obtaining a first media object capturing an image of the face; employing a first unit to: extract, from the first m...