US Patent Issued to Digimarc on April 22 for "Serialized digital watermarking for variable data printing" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,979, issued on April 22, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Serialized digital watermarking for variable data printing" was invented by Tomas Filler (Beaverton, Ore.), Matthew M. Weaver (Portland, Ore.), Tony F. Rodriguez (Portland, Ore.), Donald Haaga (Portland, Ore.), Mark-Andrew Ray Tait (Beaverton, Ore.) and Jeremy Cattone (Tigard, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Variable data printing workflows are enhanced for use with content that includes 2D code patterns, such as digital watermark data. One arrangement includes applying a filter to a content stream within a PDF document to extract both first variable patte...