ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,402, issued on June 10, was assigned to Insurance Services Office Inc. (Jersey City, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for detection and localization of image and document forgery" was invented by Anurag Ghosh (Chhattisgarh, India), Dongmian Zou (Jiangsu Province, China) and Maneesh Kumar Singh (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detection and localization of image and document forgery. The method can include the step of receiving a dataset having a plurality of authentic images and a plurality of manipulated images. The method can also include the step of benchmarking a plurality of image forgery algori...