US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 5 for "Document sharing protection with watermark" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,688, issued on May 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Document sharing protection with watermark" was invented by Xi Chen (Redmond, Wash.) and Kalin Georgiev Toshev (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a computing system for protection against document sharing. The computing system includes a processor having associated memory, the processor being configured to execute instructions using portions of the memory to cause the processor to implement a compliance portal where a policy is established covering a plurality of documents, transmit the policy to a client device having a ...