ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,322, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"End-to-end watermarking system" was invented by Xiyang Luo (Mountain View, Calif.), Feng Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Elnaz Barshan Tashnizi (Toronto), Dake He (Waterloo, Canada), Ryan Matthew Haggarty (Kitchener, Canada) and Michael Gene Goebel (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for jointly training an encoder that generates a watermark and a decoder that decodes a data item encoded within the watermark. The training comprises obtaining a plura...