ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,572, issued on April 14, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Collaborative generative artificial intelligence content identification and verification" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.), Richard Kelley (Woodbridge, Va.), Jason Hopper (Halifax, Canada) and David Park (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The Generative AI Content Verification Exchange systematically registers and stores content generated by AI and real people alike. Upon submission, the system categorizes content into distinct groups, then deconstructs it into multiple segments using various methods. Each segment is assigned a unique hash valu...