ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,434, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Autonomous aesthetics-aware detection of counterfeit products" was invented by Ajay Bedi (Hamirpur, India) and Rishu Aggarwal (Rohini, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media are disclosed for accurately and efficiently identifying digital images that portray counterfeit products. The disclosed system can store key values and properties of authentic graphic elements (logos, trademarks, designs, etc.,). For example, the disclosed system can determine authentic graphic features comprising authentic shape featu...