ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,472, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to INVENTEC Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan) and INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Shanghai).

"System for verifying edited image" was invented by Ke-Han Li (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Fan Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Chao Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Ching Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Feng-Hao Liu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for verifying edited image includes: a producer terminal device configured to tile a source image for a plurality of smaller tiled images with individual source image hash values to accordingly calculate an integrated source image hash value, and to execute digitall...