ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,744, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Defensive deepfake for detecting live deepfaked audio and video" was invented by Sanjay Lohar (Charlotte, N.C.), James R. Crocker (Charlotte, N.C.), Kyle Mayers (Charlotte, N.C.), W. Scott Hammet (Charlotte, N.C.) and Kelly Renee-Drop Keiter (Waxhaw, 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 phone calls and videoconferences are provided. A program may record a target individual reciting exemplary phrases. The program may analyze the recordings to create a baseline. The pro...