ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,696, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Action oriented detection of synthetic media objects" was invented by Sivasundaram Umapathy (Chennai, India), Prasanth Kaliyangad (Chennai, India), Nagalakshmi Tirumalaikumar (Chennai, India), Manikandan Selvaraj (Chennai, India), Dharmendra Golkonda (Chennai, India), Venkatesh Sivaraman (Chennai, India), Vikas Shriniwas Shahapure (Secunderabad, India) and Sundarrajan Raman (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthetic media detection system stores, for each of a set of predefined objects an object repository with previously determined ch...