ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,058, issued on March 3, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Methods and systems for detecting infrared security marks embedded in a document" was invented by Xing Li (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for detecting one or more infrared (IR) security marks embedded in a document include receiving a document including one or more regions of interest (ROIs), wherein the ROIs correspond to pre-defined locations in the document. Thereafter, the ROIs are processed to generate a plurality of arrays of counters corresponding to each ROI. Once generated, the plurality of arrays of counters are analyze...