ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,475, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fractal Analytics Private Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for object recognition and privacy preservation" was invented by Suraj Amonkar (Mumbai, India), Abhishek Chopde (Khamgaon, India), Prankur Rusia (Bhilai, India), Kunal Singh (Kolkata, India), Mohnish Raju Jain (Mumbai, India) and Souvik Mandal (Bankura, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting an object region in an image and encrypting/decrypting a detected object region. The system comprises three main components: a database server, a data analytics system and a standard dashboard. Th...