US Patent Issued to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT on April 21 for "Halftone screens encoding signatures" (Austrian, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,019, issued on April 21, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Halftone screens encoding signatures" was invented by Gideon Amir (Ness Ziona, Israel) and Tadej Turk (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a method includes, at least one processor, in response to each of a plurality of requests, determining a halftone screen. Determining the halftone screen comprises encoding a signature pattern in the halftone screen, and halftone screens for different requests may be encoded with a different signature pattern. The halftone screen may be arranged such that, when applied to image data ...