ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,987, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Data watermarking" was invented by Alan J. Michaels (Blacksburg, Va.), Venkata N. Sai Srikar Palukuru (Canton, Mich.), John Moore (Canton, Mich.), Michael Fletcher (Roanoke, Va.) and Christopher Henshaw (Christiansburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to generate first and second messages for transmission via a communications bus via a first modulation mode and to generate first and second watermarking signals for transmission on the commun...