ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,925, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Integrating secure watermarks into content" was invented by Michael James Spaulding (San Francisco) and Chien Hong Lucas Png (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a content server including one or more processors and from a client device, one or more characteristics of a particular content delivery opportunity, obtaining, by the content server, a watermarked digital component that is stenographed with a watermark representing (i) a payload that triggers an action by a client device that detects the watermark and (...