ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,656, issued on July 21, was assigned to Project Karna Inc. (Portland, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for real time deepfake identification in virtual meetings" was invented by Rajashree Baskaran (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authenticating application may send instructions to a device to generate and emit an ultrasonic signal, the device being associated with a user having access credential to a virtual meeting. The application may receive in real time from the virtual meeting, audio data associated with the access credential. The application may search the audio data for the ultrasonic signal. Responsive to finding ...