US Patent Issued to Digimarc on Oct. 21 for "Robust encoding of machine readable information in host objects and biometrics, and associated decoding and authentication" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,238, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Robust encoding of machine readable information in host objects and biometrics, and associated decoding and authentication" was invented by Matthew M. Weaver (Portland, Ore.) and Tony F. Rodriguez (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure details image and audio signal processing methods and associated equipment to robustly encode transaction parameters in rendered displays, printed objects and audio. It also details corresponding decoding methods and equipment to recover these parameters. Further, it details object authentication processi...