US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 13 for "Detecting and preventing harmful generative image outputs using digital signatures" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,544, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting and preventing harmful generative image outputs using digital signatures" was invented by Meenaz Aliraza Merchant (Kirkland, Wash.), Sudharsan Prabu (Kirkland, Wash.), Kun Wu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Surendra Ulabala (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes utilizing an image model protection system to improve the defensive robustness of a large generative image model against the generation of harmful digital images. For example, the image model protection system uses digital signatures of identified ha...