ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,364, issued on April 7, was assigned to SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Media attribution verification" was invented by Martin Graciarena (Belmont, Calif.), John Cadigan (San Diego) and Alan Taitz (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the disclosure describes techniques for obtaining, by a computing system, a content item and a purported source for the content item, wherein the content item may include multimodal data. The techniques may further include generating, by the computing system, a plurality of modality feature vectors representative of the multimodal data, wherein each of the generated mod...