US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 22 for "Metadata watermarking for 'nested spectating'" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,738, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Metadata watermarking for 'nested spectating'" was invented by Steven Osman (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watermark representing a link to an original video and/or metadata such as haptic metadata associated with the original video is embedded in the original video in such a way that a re-recording to the original video can still preserve the watermark. The watermark can be used to link to the original video or to the metadata related thereto."

The patent was filed on July 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/349,142.

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