US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on Jan. 27 for "Identifying a digital watermark in an image/video/audio stream where the image has been converted to a different format" (Idaho, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,605, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Identifying a digital watermark in an image/video/audio stream where the image has been converted to a different format" was invented by Douglas Max Grover (Rigby, Idaho) and Michael F. Angelo (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual media is received. For example, the received visual media may be a digital image, a video file, or a video stream. A plurality of colors in the visual media are identified. In response to identifying the plurality of colors in the visual media, one or more colors not in the visual media are identified. A watermark is ...