ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,715, issued on March 17, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detection of AI-generated images" was invented by David Charles Epstein (Orinda, Calif.), Richard Zhang (Burlingame, Calif.) and Ishan Kapil Jain (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for obtaining an input image comprising a plurality of pixels. A machine learning model generates annotation information indicating whether each of the plurality of pixels is synthetically generated. A combined image is generated based on the annotation information. In some cases, the combined image s...