ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,317, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Verimatrix Inc. (San Diego), Verimatrix GmbH (Ismaning, Germany), Verimatrix UK (London) and Verimatrix OY (Helsinki).

"Systems and methods for injecting code for tamper detection in a playback application" was invented by Klaus Schenk (Unterfohring, Germany), Martin Bergenwall (Helsinki), Neal Michie (London), Johan Lindquist (Merritt Island, Fla.), Zoran Alexov (Ismaning, Germany) and David Brown (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the invention describes a method for detecting tampering with copy restrictions on a media playback device that includes identifying locatio...