MUMBAI, India, July 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617062709 A) filed by Cisco Technology, Inc. on May 18, 2026, for Using Steganographic Watermarking To Prevent Deepfakes.
Inventors include Hanes, M. , David; Singh, Vivek, Kumar; and White, David, C. Jr..
The application for the patent was published on July 24, 2026, under issue no. 30/2026.
Abstract: Techniques for utilizing invisible and/or inaudible watermarking techniques in media streams (e.g., video and/or audio streams) as a form of in-band steganography to authenticate the source capture camera and/or microphone to prevent deepfakes in network-based communication systems. User device(s) may establish cloud-based connections to a network-...