ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,532, issued on May 12, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS (Dallas).

"Method for synthetic video/image detection" was invented by Saraju P. Mohanty (Dallas), Elias Kougianos (Dallas) and Alakananda Mitra (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying synthetic media can include identifying a facial image in video or images, extracting a first set of features from the facial image, extracting a second set of features from the facial image, wherein the first set of features are different than the second set of features, inputting the first set of features into a first prediction model, generating a first output ind...