US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Policy for preventing unauthorized photo capture" (New York, Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,804, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Policy for preventing unauthorized photo capture" was invented by Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.), Kevin W. Brew (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Alexander Reznicek (Troy, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (CIM), according to one embodiment, includes enacting a first policy. Enacting the first policy includes collecting location data and camera data for a first user device. Enacting the first policy further includes causing a predetermined machine learning model to use the data to determin...