ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,736, issued on Feb. 4.
"Soft identification plate and method therefor" was invented by Adam Scott Paper (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Malissa Ann Wise (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A license plate assembly includes a backing and a flexible license plate. The flexible license plate includes plural layers, including a licensing-information layer, in which ink is deposited in the form of alphanumeric characters on an underlying one of the plural layers, the alphanumeric characters providing license information. The flexible license plate optionally includes one or more holograms, and/or watermarks, and/or QR-codes. Th...