ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,510, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Zoom agnostic watermark extraction" was invented by Dake He (Waterloo, Canada), Tianhao Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Elnaz Barshan Tashnizi (Toronto), Xiyang Luo (Mountain View, Calif.), Huiwen Chang (Cambridge, Mass.), Feng Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ryan Matthew Haggarty (Kitchener, Canada).
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 determining a visually imperceptible or a visually perceptible watermark and outputting a result based on the determination. A watermar...