US Patent Issued to Brightstar Global Solutions on Oct. 14 for "Automated fraudulent altering and photocopying detection utilizing steganographic pattern detection" (Florida, Georgia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,815, issued on Oct. 14, 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: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for automatically verifying the authenticity and integrity of documents such as but not limited to instant lottery tickets."

The patent was filed on March 3, 2025, under Application No. 19/068,343.

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