ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,537, issued on June 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Collaborative watermarking of generated content" was invented by Sailik Sengupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Georgiana Dinu (New York) and Dan Roth (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive a content request, and generate a set of tokens based on the content request. The system may transmit the set of tokens to a model deployer, and receive a mask in response. The system may then generate a second mask. The system may combine the model deployer mask and the second mask to generate a combined mask. The system may obtain a next token as part...