ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,313, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Utility preserving anonymization of visual content" was invented by Kieran Fraser (Dublin), Liubov Nedoshivina (Dublin), Anisa Halimi (Dublin) and Stefano Braghin (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for visual content privatization is provided. The present invention may include receiving visual content associated with a subject. The present invention may include altering the visual content using at least one or more image perturbations or one or more adversarial patches in respons...