US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Sept. 29 for "Trustworthiness of video data streams" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,242, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Trustworthiness of video data streams" was invented by Jonathan Pfaff (Berlin), Tobias Hinz (Berlin), Karsten Suhring (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking a video data stream having a video encoded thereinto on trustworthiness comprises: subjecting a predetermined portion of the video data stream, or data derived therefrom, to a hash function to obtain a hash value; deriving a digital signature from the video data s...