US Patent Issued to SWEAR on April 15 for "Validating media data based on encoded metadata" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,856, issued on April 15, was assigned to SWEAR Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Validating media data based on encoded metadata" was invented by Jason Lealand Crawforth (Boise, Idaho) and Michael Robert Blood (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices that support determining whether media data has been altered are described. Captured media data may be segmented into one or more subsets, and cryptographic representations (e.g., hashes) based on the subsets may be written to an immutable ledger, possibly along with metadata and other related data. A block of a blockchain may be created for each entry in the immutab...