US Patent Issued to Digimarc on July 1 for "Smoothing edges when embedding PDF artwork elements" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,693, issued on July 1, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Smoothing edges when embedding PDF artwork elements" was invented by Trent J. Brundage (Sherwood, Ore.) and Brian Johnson (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to signal encoding for elements within PDF files. One implementation smooths saw-toothed edges of rasterized elements meant for encoding. Other implementations are provided too."

The patent was filed on May 27, 2022, under Application No. 17/827,323.

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