US Patent Issued to Brightstar Global Solutions on Nov. 4 for "Automated fraudulent altering and photocopying detection utilizing steganographic pattern detection" (Florida, Georgia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,131, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Brightstar Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).

"Automated fraudulent altering and photocopying detection utilizing steganographic pattern detection" was invented by Kenneth E. Irwin Jr. (Dawsonville, Ga.), Joseph Brandimore (Lakeland, Fla.) and Brian Ingram (Murphy, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machines for automatically verifying the authenticity and integrity of a ticket such as an instant lottery ticket, a draw lottery ticket, a passive lottery ticket, and/or a Ticket In Ticket Out (Tito) ticket. The systems, methods, and machines verify the authenticity and...