ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,834, issued on April 7, was assigned to XPERIX INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method of processing data for personal information protection and apparatus using the same" was invented by Wonseok Ahn (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and BoGun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method of processing data for protecting personal information and an apparatus using the same. The method of processing data, which is a method for providing a data processor terminal with processing target data, includes acquiring a first original image and a second original image, segmenting the first original image into a plura...