US Patent Issued to Music IP Holdings on Oct. 20 for "AI-generated content provenance and distribution control" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,809, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Music IP Holdings Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"AI-generated content provenance and distribution control" 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 content using a generative artificial-intelligence model and associating provenance data with the generated content via a digital identifier. The digital identifier may comprise at least one of a watermark, a fingerprint, embedded metadata, a hash, an external metadata payload, or an entry in a content database. Usage-constraint metadata, including provenance data indica...