US Patent Issued to Monotype Imaging on Feb. 3 for "Modifying fonts for obfuscating text and viewing obfuscated text" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,608, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Monotype Imaging Inc. (Woburn, Mass.).

"Modifying fonts for obfuscating text and viewing obfuscated text" was invented by Ninan Chacko (New York), Venkateswarlu Yetrintala (Palatine, Ill.) and Atilla Korap (Karben, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The system also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data representing characters of a font present in an electronic communication. The data includes an integer code for each character of the font. ...