ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,702, issued on April 7, was assigned to Jumio Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Metadata-based image origination checker" was invented by Yanying Chen (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Alix Melchy (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes a system and method for extracting, using one or more processors, metadata from a first media file, wherein the metadata is distinct from media content; encoding, using the one or more processors, a first portion of the metadata extracted from the first media file into a first metadata-encoded media signature; and determining, using the one or more processors, whether the first metadata-encode...