US Patent Issued to Digimarc on May 13 for "Pre-press warping arrangements for watermarks and associated graphic artworks, with related quality control techniques" (Oregon, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,764, issued on May 13, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Pre-press warping arrangements for watermarks and associated graphic artworks, with related quality control techniques" was invented by Hugh L. Brunk (Portland, Ore.), Kristyn R. Falkenstern (Portland, Ore.) and Vojtech Holub (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Consumer product labels sometime include 2D machine readable codes, such as digital watermark patterns. When such label artwork is printed on a plastic sleeve that is then heat-shrunk to conform to a plastic container, the code can become distorted and unreadable. Various techniques are deta...