ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,212, issued on April 22, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Defensive deepfake for detecting spoofed accounts" was invented by Kelly Renee-Drop Keiter (Waxhaw, N.C.), Michael Young (Davidson, N.C.), Kyle Mayers (Charlotte, N.C.) and Sanjay Lohar (Charlotte, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for using deepfakes defensively to detect fake, spoofed, and hoax accounts and posts on social media and elsewhere are provided. A program may gather verified images or writings of a target individual. The program may analyze the verified images and writings to create a baseline. The program may use de...