US Patent Issued to IGT Global Solutions on June 24 for "Automated fraudulent altering and photocopying detection utilizing steganographic pattern detection" (Florida, Georgia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,272, issued on June 24, was assigned to IGT Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).

"Automated fraudulent altering and photocopying detection utilizing steganographic pattern detection" was invented by Kenneth E. Irwin Jr. (Dawsonville, Ga.), Joseph Brandimore (Lakeland, Fla.) and Brian Ingram (Murphy, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for automatically verifying the authenticity and integrity of documents such as but not limited to instant lottery tickets."

The patent was filed on Aug. 13, 2024, under Application No. 18/802,568.

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