Privacy4Cars continued its ongoing drive toward solving the privacy and security issues posed by vehicle data last week by announcing the U.S. Patent Office approved three new patents.

The company highlighted two patents are novel areas of expansion for Privacy4Cars.

The first patent titled, “Artificial Intelligence Based System and Method for Generating Dynamically Variable Multi-Dimensional Privacy Rating for Vehicles” is for covering how to build privacy rating systems in automotive, a space Privacy4Cars entered with its Vehicle Privacy Report.

The company launched this report last May as a free tool for consumers and a merchandising solution for dealerships. It includes a privacy labeling system covering about 600 million vehicles across the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and the EU.

Privacy4Cars said the next patent titled, “Methods and Systems to Reduce Privacy Invasion and Methods and Systems to Thwart Same” is an approach to defeating artificial intelligence and computer vision systems that are increasingly used to invade privacy of consumers.

Originally developed to dramatically decrease the accuracy of automated license plate readers (ALPR) without illegally altering plates, Privacy4Cars explained it has much broader applicability to reduce the reliability of systems that collect biometrics, use facial recognition and other image-based IDs.

Privacy4Cars said the third patent is an expansion of the company’s signature method to delete personal information stored in vehicles and to create records of deletion. This news cements Privacy4Cars’ unchallenged leadership in the automotive privacy tech space.

Hundreds of companies already rely on Privacy4Cars’ AutoCleared data deletion service that now includes six patents.

The news of the expanded patent portfolio comes on the heels of Privacy4Cars’ recent successful financing round.

In December, Privacy4Cars secured a multi-million-dollar debt facility with SaaS Capital, a provider of growth debt to software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, to provide additional non-dilutive growth capital.

The company said the development also arrived as there has been an increased focus and action on the part of regulators to improve privacy in vehicles across the globe. This includes the first two laws to specifically mandate a process to delete the personal information of consumers stored in vehicles exchanging hands.

“As vehicle technology evolves and new legislation emerges to protect consumers’ privacy, the need to innovate – and advocate – for better privacy tools in the automotive space has never been greater,” Privacy4Cars CEO and founder Andrea Amico said. “The issuance of these three new patents is a testament to our unwavering commitment to driving privacy. Through these new patents, we will be able to offer new privacy tools for consumers and auto businesses, alike.”

Privacy4Cars said its newly awarded patents will fuel the expansion of its product offering. Its patented tool, AutoCleared, has been used in nearly 1.5 million vehicles to efficiently manage, execute, and log the deletion of personal information from cars (phone numbers, call logs, location history, garage door codes, and more).

Its Vehicle Privacy Report tool has been visited more than 250,000 times through “pure word of mouth,” according to Privacy4Cars.

In March, Vehicle Privacy Report smart labels had over 10 million impressions on participating dealership websites.

Both services are free to consumers and offered as a solution for businesses seeking “to grow trust, engagement, and compliance standards through privacy,” Privacy4Cars said.

For more information about Privacy4Cars, visit: https://privacy4cars.com.