ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,596, issued on May 6, was assigned to Raritex Trade Ltd. (Lefkosia, Cyprus).

"Detecting synthetic visual media" was invented by Pavel Goldman Kalaydin (Berlin), Aleksey Samarin (Belgrade, Serbia) and Alexander Saveliev (Belgrade, Serbia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for detecting synthetic visual media comprising the steps of receiving visual media, wherein the visual media is synthetic visual media or genuine visual media. Identifying at least one feature within the visual media. Identifying a first portion of the visual media and second portion of the visual media, the first portion of the visual media containing...