ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,556, issued on March 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Authenticator-integrated generative adversarial network (GAN) for secure deepfake generation" was invented by Ilke Demir (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Carl S. Marshall (Portland, Ore.), Satyam Srivastava (Rancho Cordova, Calif.) and Steven Gans (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to facilitate an authenticator-integrated generative adversarial network (GAN) for secure deepfake generation is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to: generate, by a generative neural network, samples based on feedback received from a dis...