US Patent Issued to Reality Defender on April 29 for "Common sense reasoning for deepfake detection" (New York, California, Michigan, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,379, issued on April 29, was assigned to Reality Defender Inc. (New York).

"Common sense reasoning for deepfake detection" was invented by Gaurav Bharaj (San Francisco), Yue Zhang (East Lansing, Mich.), Ben Colman (New York) and Ali Shahriyari (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary method for detecting deepfake images and providing customized analysis comprises: receiving, from a user, a textual user inquiry regarding an image; inputting the textual inquiry and the image into a deepfake detection model, wherein the deepfake detection model comprises: an image encoder for generating a plurality of image embeddings based...