ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,174, issued on March 25, was assigned to MONEYTHUMB INC. (Encinitas, Calif.).
"Detection of altered documents" was invented by Ralph Mayer (Encinitas, Calif.) and Erik Giles (Encinitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Analyzing and detecting altered documents is accomplished by accessing a target portable document format (PDF) document and extracting document content information from the target PDF document. The extracted document content information is analyzed to generate an intra document model for the target PDF document and then the extracted document content information is evaluated in accordance with the intra document ...