US Patent Issued to Shopify on May 19 for "Volumetric permissioning" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,078, issued on May 19, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Volumetric permissioning" was invented by Daniel Beauchamp (Ottawa) and James Lepp (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for generating and transmitting media data feeds location-based privacy settings. Embodiments generate, store, and reference location-based privacy settings that instruct the computing device to generate obfuscations in the media data. The obfuscations may include computer-generated or user gesture-generated obfuscation regions that instruct the computing device to apply the obfuscations to portions of the video ...