ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,859, issued on Sept. 1.

"Watermark processing" was invented by Xiaojun Xu (Los Angeles), Jinghan Jia (Los Angeles), Hang Li (Beijing) and Yuanshun Yao (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution for watermark processing. A method includes: dividing at least one portion of a n original text for watermark embedding into a plurality of original text segments; determining, for an original text segment of the plurality of original text segments, a target symbol from a symbol sequence in watermark information; converting, based on respective target symbols determined for the pluralit...