US Patent Issued to ImageShield on June 24 for "System and methods for protecting, monitoring, and reporting use of content" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,936, issued on June 24, was assigned to ImageShield LLC (Fairfax, Va.).

"System and methods for protecting, monitoring, and reporting use of content" was invented by Michael Gallagher (Fairfax Station, Va.) and Vinay Kumar Thadem (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates generally to a system and methods for protecting content, and more particularly to a system and methods for monitoring and reporting use of content to prevent and redress misuses of the same or similar content. The system may be configured to receive content from a registered user either directly from a client device or indirectly from a thir...