ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,379, issued on June 9, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and Universidad Industrial de Santander (Bucaramanga, Colombia).

"Systems and methods for privacy-preserving optics" was invented by Juan Carlos Niebles (Stanford, Calif.), Carlos Hinojosa (Thwal, Colombia) and Henry Arguello (Bucaramanga, Colombia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for privacy-preserving optics are described. An embodiments includes a method of preserving-privacy on captured images while performing a computer vision task that includes generating an optimal set of parameters to param...