ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,990, issued on April 1, was assigned to S2W INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method of detecting brand theft and apparatus for performing the same" was invented by Ki Cheol Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Dong Bin Seol (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Keun Tae Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a brand theft according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: acquiring protected object data related to a brand to be protected, the protected object data including brand character data and brand logo image data related to a brand, and CDN keyword data indicating a source in which the bran...