ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,560, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Video manipulation detection" was invented by Ritwik Sinha (Cupertino, Calif.), Viswanathan Swaminathan (Saratoga, Calif.), Trisha Mittal (College Park, Md.) and John Philip Collomosse (Pyrford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for video manipulation detection are described to detect one or more manipulations present in digital content such as a digital video. A detection system, for instance, receives a frame of a digital video that depicts at least one entity. Coordinates of the frame that correspond to a gaze location of the entity are det...