US Patent Issued to SWEAR on June 30 for "Preserving attribution data of digital media within immutable ledgers" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,728, issued on June 30, was assigned to SWEAR Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Preserving attribution data of digital media within immutable ledgers" was invented by Jason Lealand Crawforth (Boise, Idaho) and Michael Robert Blood (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices that support determining whether media data has been altered are described. Captured media data may be segmented into one or more subsets, and cryptographic representations (e.g., hashes) based on the subsets may be written to an immutable ledger, possibly along with metadata and other related data. A block of a blockchain may be created for eac...