ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,859, issued on Feb. 10.

"Method and system that provides access to custom and interactive content from an optical code" was invented by Stephon Dwight Lee (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Clinton Rice (Lilburn, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides the method for users to access different content when users snap a picture of a single Optical Code. The present invention relates to a method and system that provides a single user or concurrently provides multiple users with controlled access to custom and interactive content. The present invention stores a Unique Key within the Optical Code used to look up programmed...