ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,864, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Zoho Corporation Private Limited (Kanchipuram District, India).

"Text watermarking using bitstream encoding" was invented by Subathra Periakaruppan (Madurai, India), Punithavathi Palani (Chennai, India), Sujatha S Iyer (Chengalpet District, India), Balachandar S (Chengalpet District, India), Ramprakash Ramamoorthy (Chengalpet District, India), Shailesh Kumar Davey (Kanchipuram District, India), Srisakthi Saravanan (Chennai, India) and Sudheer A. Grandhi (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods and systems that watermark text files in document or image formats usi...