ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,861, issued on March 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Privacy control geofencing" was invented by Robert Lawson Vaughn (Portland, Ore.) and Cagri Cagatay Tanriover (Bethany, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques may be used for enhancing privacy and security within a geofencing system. An example technique may include monitoring for at least one media capture violating a personal geofence associated with a first user device, and detecting that the at least one media capture violates the personal geofence associated with the first user device, the at least one media capture including at lea...