ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,780, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association (Minneapolis).

"Video redaction" was invented by Soumitri Naga Kolavennu (Plymouth, Minn.), Varshini Sriram (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Priyanka Singhal (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the embodiments described herein are related to systems, methods, and computer products for forming a redacted video. A video is processed to detect one or more subjects present within the video. From the detected subjects, a subject to be redacted is determined. Bounding regions are determined for the subject in each frame in which the subject is present. Determining ...