ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,420, issued on June 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Verification of the authenticity of images using a decoding neural network" was invented by Feng Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hui Fang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and apparatuses for verifying the authenticity of images. In aspects, methods include receiving, by a decoder system (220), an image (210) to be verified; performing feature recognition on the received image to determine determined features (238) of the received image; generating a first output (236) defining values representing the deter...