US Patent Issued to Intertrust Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Secure content augmentation systems and methods" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,988, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intertrust Technologies Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Secure content augmentation systems and methods" was invented by Jarl Nilsson (Mountain View, Calif.), Vivek Palan (San Francisco) and Michael Manente (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to, among other things, systems and methods for augmenting and/or otherwise supplementing content using watermarks. Consistent with embodiments disclosed herein, a user device such as a smartphone may be used to retrieve watermark information encoded in a watermark. The watermark information may comprise content that supplement...