ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,699, issued on July 28, was assigned to Claritas Software Solutions Ltd (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

"Enhancing deepfake detection using forensic models" was invented by Michael Matias (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Avriel (Mevaseret Zion, Israel), Natalie Fridman (Petach Tikva, Israel) and Shmuel Ur (Doar-Na Misgav, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer implemented method of detecting a deepfake video, comprising: feeding a video into at least one forensic model, obtaining at least one indication of at least one property of a person or object depicted in the video as an outcome of the at least one forensic model, compar...