ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,448, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

"System and method of protecting facial privacy using text-guided makeup via adversarial latent search" was invented by Fahad Shamshad (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Muzammal Naseer (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Karthik Nandakumar (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and system to protect user facial privacy against unknown face recognition levels without compromising on a user's online experience. An input source to input an original face imag...