ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,405, issued on April 29, was assigned to I-SPRINT INNOVATIONS PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Graphical watermark, method and apparatus for generating same, and method and apparatus for authenticating same" was invented by Chin Phek Ong (Singapore), Wai Keung Ching (Singapore) and Tat Kwong Simon Leung (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a graphical watermark, a method and an apparatus for generating a graphical watermark, and a method and an apparatus for authenticating a graphical watermark. The graphical watermark includes: a plurality of graphical markers carrying position and pose information, and iden...