ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,001, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sky CP Ltd. (Middlesex, Great Britain).

"Digital watermarking in a content delivery network" was invented by Andrew Gerrie (Middlesex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for digital watermarking at a content distribution network, CDN, node are described, whereby source data intended for at least one recipient is received from an origin server, the source data including a plurality of encrypted segments interleaved with at least one non-encrypted segment. Metadata is detected in the source data, the metadata identifying each non-encrypted segment, and in response, the...