US Patent Issued to Music IP Holdings (MIH) on Sept. 8 for "Watermarking of AI-generated derivative works" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,862, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Music IP Holdings (MIH) Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Watermarking of AI-generated derivative works" was invented by Daniel A. Drolet (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein disclosed is a method for generating and managing derivative works using generative artificial intelligence. A request to generate a derivative work based on predetermined content is received, the request comprising a requested theme. The derivative work is created as a function of the predetermined content and the requested theme using generative artificial intelligence. A watermark is embedded into the derivat...