Seagate Assigned Patent

Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,166,302) developed by Yin Lung Shih, Saratoga, CA, for a "storage device with traceable watermarked content."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage device responds to a content request by watermarking the content and providing the watermarked content to the requester. The watermarked content uniquely identifies the storage device so that the storage device is traceable from the watermarked content."

The patent application was filed on April 23, 2002 (10/131,171).