US Patent Issued to Blinkly on July 14 for "Visual cryptography for text using layers" (District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,521, issued on July 14, was assigned to Blinkly Inc. (Washington).

"Visual cryptography for text using layers" was invented by Joowon Kim (Washington) and Reechik Chatterjee (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations provide visual cryptographic techniques that obscure text using pixel manipulation and multiple visual layers. The visual cryptography techniques implemented in embodiments manipulate the pixel values of an image that define target text and generate multiple layers using the manipulated pixel values. The generated layers are configured such that successive and rapid display of the layers generates an obsc...