ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,077, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Indication of digital medial integrity" was invented by Jizheng Xu (Los Angeles), Ye-kui Wang (Los Angeles), Li Zhang (Los Angeles) and Kai Zhang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of digital media processing includes performing a conversion between a media segment and a bitstream of the media segment. The conversion conforming to a format rule and an encryption rule. The format rule specifying that verification information, which includes an indication of an integrity of a portion of the media segment, is signaled in the bitstream."

The paten...