US Patent Issued to Leopard Imaging on Aug. 4 for "System and method for privacy-preserving audio-visual processing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,785, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Leopard Imaging Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"System and method for privacy-preserving audio-visual processing" was invented by Yongning Zou (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes a privacy-preserving audio-visual (AV) processing system. The system is configured to transform raw AV data into non-reconstructable embeddings in real-time, immediately discarding the original sensitive data within milliseconds. This process enables AI-based event analysis solely on these secure embeddings, significantly mitigating privacy risks associated with traditional surveillan...