ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,462, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Genesee Valley Innovations LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques to process three-dimensional object files while maintaining privacy" was invented by Shantanu Rane (Palo Alto, Calif.), Alejandro E. Brito (Mountain View, Calif.) and Morad Behandish (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides techniques for processing a three-dimensional (3D) object file or object model in a privacy-preserving manner. An example method includes receiving, from a remote computing device, an encrypted object file comprising a specification of a 3D printable object and receivin...