ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,365, issued on April 7, was assigned to Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Object attribute-based watermarking method for preventing leakage of digital content" was invented by Ji Soo Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Hee Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Young Min Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Soo Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Hwa Kim (Gunpo-si, South Korea), Byoung Hyo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeon Chan Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an object attribute-based watermarking method for preventing leakage of a digital content. A video watermarking method according...