US Patent Issued to Digimarc on Nov. 25 for "System for mitigating the problem of deepfake media content using watermarking" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,053, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"System for mitigating the problem of deepfake media content using watermarking" was invented by Adnan M. Alattar (Tigard, Ore.), Ravi K. Sharma (Portland, Ore.) and John A. Scriven (Oregon City, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Watermarking media content, in combination with blockchain and distributed storage networks, prevents the proliferation of Deepfake content. Digital watermarks are embedded in the audio and video tracks of video clips of trusted content producers at the time the videos are captured or before they are distributed. The watermarks are d...