ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,817, issued on June 2, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method and system for redacting and retrieving data in a video" was invented by Edgar Nielzen Alconis Quibal (Hawthrone, Calif.) and Vicente Cheng Gutierrez (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for redacting private or sensitive information in a video file before publishing the video file to the public. The system and method do not redact an original video file but a duplicated video file, and only redacted duplicated video file will be displayed to a public user. Also included is a system and method for r...