US Patent Issued to SIGNS & WONDERS UNLtd. on Jan. 28 for "System and method for encoding and authenticating a digital image" (Nebraska, Illinois, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,116, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SIGNS & WONDERS UNLtd. LLC (Libertyville, Ill.).

"System and method for encoding and authenticating a digital image" was invented by Nancy Powers (Libertyville, Ill.), Terrence M. Fortuna (Clarkston, Mich.) and Paul Kocsis (Omaha, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding apparatus partitions a digital image into multiple regions for subsequent encoding. A first encryption code is associated with a first region, a second encryption code is associated with a second region and the first code, and a third code is associated with the first code, the second code and a third region. An authenti...