ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,977, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siliconch Systems Pvt Ltd (Karnataka, India).

"Method and system for watermarking a USB PD protocol hardware sub-system" was invented by Shubham Paliwal (Uttar Pradesh, India), Rakesh Kumar Polasa (Karnataka, India), Vishnu Mohan Pusuluri (Karnataka, India) and Venugopal Jennarapu (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for watermarking a USB Type-C and PD protocol hardware sub-system existing as a part of a SOC/IC system includes a tester to generate a watermarking signal, a device under test (DUT), wherein the DUT is configured with a USB Type-C port with power delivery impl...