ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,543, issued on July 21, was assigned to NUCO VAULT LLC (Tarpon Springs, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for deepfake-resistant data authentication" was invented by Mariah Fox (Tarpon Springs, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a quantum-based, deepfake resistant data authentication framework that provides read/write protections for electronic and/or digital content through quantum-based entanglement and steganographic techniques. In some implementations, the framework can identify who owns a digital asset to facilitate identification of digital content as being deepfake content and the takedown of the deepfake conten...