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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2025
United Services Automobile Association (Usaa), San Antonio, TX (US);
Christopher Edward Flores, San Antonio, TX (US);
Priyadarshini Badugu, Frisco, TX (US);
Subhalakshmi Selvam, Allen, TX (US);
Timothy Blair Chalmers, San Antonio, TX (US);
Gregory Brian Meyer, San Antonio, TX (US);
Heather Hernandez, San Antonio, TX (US);
Kenan Neil Bubela, Boerne, TX (US);
United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
An optical data system includes an optical storage medium including a watermark region, a read subsystem, and a control system. The watermark region is encoded with an encryption key to provide information about embedded data. The read subsystem includes a base used to support the optical storage medium, a laser system used to focus light from one or more lasers, and one or more detectors used to read the embedded data from the optical storage medium based on the light interacting with the optical storage medium. The control system includes one or more processors and a memory that stores instructions to control the read subsystem to scan the watermark region to provide scan data, identify the encryption key based on the scan data, and generate computer readable data using the encryption key to decrypt the embedded data from the optical storage medium.