ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,676, issued on June 30, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and device for facilitating a privacy-aware representation in a system" was invented by Konstantinos Vandikas (Solna, Sweden), Daniel Lindstrom (Lulea, Sweden), Lackis Eleftheriadis (Valbo, Sweden) and Athanasios Karapantelakis (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein disclose a method for facilitating a privacy-aware representation in a system. The method comprises determining using a content analyzer a layout of a scene. Thereafter, one or more objects in the scene is identified using the content analyzer to d...