US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 4 for "Methods, systems, and media for protecting and verifying video files" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,920, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for protecting and verifying video files" was invented by Anuj Thakkar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Valeri Savvateev (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for protecting and verifying video files are provided. In some embodiments, a method for verifying video streams is provided, the method comprising: receiving, at a user device, a request to present a video that is associated with a video archive, wherein the video archive includes a file list, a signature corresponding to the file list, video me...