US Patent Issued to EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK on Dec. 9 for "Copy prevention of digital sample images" (Swiss, Belgian, American, Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,074, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Copy prevention of digital sample images" was invented by John Scott Hallock (Six Mile, S.C.), Pascal Bigare (Ottignies, Belgium), Sylvain Chosson (Zurich), Claudio Bellini (Rome), Martin Eichenberger (Zollikon, Switzerland) and Elisabeth Schulz (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for training an artificial intelligence based neural network is provided. At least one digital image of at least one security document is provided as a reference. A set of digital training images is provided, wherein these ...