ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,567, issued on July 21, was assigned to SMART ENGINES SERVICE LLC (Moscow).

"Method for detecting and localizing a falsified area in JPEG images" was invented by Nikita Viktorovich Arlazarov (Moscow), Irina Andreevna Kunina (Aleksandrovsky district, Russia), Dmitrij Valerevich Polevoj (Moscow) and Aleksandr Vasilevich Chujko (Izhevsk, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to verifying the authenticity of images of documents. Embodiments increase the accuracy of determining the falsified area in the image. The method for detecting and localizing a falsified area in JPEG images is to consider, in the RGB color s...