ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,278, issued on April 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image authenticity detection method and device, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Taiping Yao (Shenzhen, China), Xinyao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Shouhong Ding (Shenzhen, China), Jilin Li (Shenzhen, China) and Yunsheng Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image authenticity detection method includes: obtaining a target image; inputting the target image into a generator of a generative adversarial network, and outputting an artifact image corresponding to the target image through the generator, where the artifact i...