US Patent Issued to Avalara on Aug. 12 for "Digitally watermarking resources produced by an online software platform based on applying one or more resource digital rules" (Florida, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,941, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Avalara Inc. (Seattle).

"Digitally watermarking resources produced by an online software platform based on applying one or more resource digital rules" was invented by Mark Janzen (Wichita, Kan.) and Anthony Ungerman (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods electronically uniquely imprint a digital watermark on produced resources, such as on data or electronic documents produced by an online software platform (OSP), in nearly invisible ways that are likely to survive subsequent processing. In one embodiment the OSP stores a plurality of resource digital rules used fo...