ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,366, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Artificial intelligence based content detection" was invented by Daniel Neil MacTiernan (Ocean City, N.J.), Katherine Goodrich (New Haven, Conn.) and Aaron Sahagun (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The AI detection system processes content. The AI detection system extracts text with optical character recognition technology. A machine learning model is applied to the text to determine a likelihood of whether the text was generated by AI. A machine learning model is applied to the text to determine a likelihood whether the text includes a...