US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on Nov. 4 for "Using watermarks to identify a chain of title in media" (Idaho, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,998, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Using watermarks to identify a chain of title in media" 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 watermark is generated. The generated watermark is specific to an individual owner of a media. The media may be any type of electronic media, such as, an image, a document, a movie, an audio file, a software application, and/or the like. The watermark is inserted into the media. The watermark in the media is changed when ownership of the media is changed. For example, as the media is sold t...