ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,825, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GeoSnapShot Pty Ltd (Mona Vale, Australia).

"Inspection of digital images through watermarks" was invented by Andrew John Edwards (Dee Why, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital image system includes a tool for enabling inspection of digital images through security marks. The system (300) generally includes a digital image source (310), a digital image publishing platform (320), and a user device (330). The source (310) includes storage (312) for storing digital images and a processor (316) for accessing images from the storage (312) and processing the image using a image processin...