ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,187, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co. Ltd. (Guian, China).

"Methods and systems for watermarking digital data" was invented by Saeed Ranjbar Alvar (Coquitlam, Canada), Mohammad Akbari (Coquitlam, Canada), Ming Xuan Yue (Richmond, Canada) and Yong Zhang (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for watermarking objects of a digital dataset are disclosed. The method includes, at a first moment in time, acquiring a watermark message of a first size and generating a plurality of sub-messages based on the watermark message. The plurality of sub-messages are indicative of...