ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,598, issued on March 17, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Embedding and extracting watermark in video data" was invented by Huaguan Ma (Shenzhen, China), Zhaohong Chen (Shenzhen, China), Jie Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Xiaodong Cui (Shenzhen, China), Lifu Wang (Shenzhen, China), Wei Huang (Shenzhen, China), Yicong Liu (Shenzhen, China), Xin Li (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaoxia Pan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in this application are a method for embedding a watermark in video data and apparatus, a method for extracting a watermark in video data and apparatus, a device, and a storag...