ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,951, issued on June 10.
"Media recording and playback system employing two-dimensional bar codes" was invented by John Leonard Wechsler (Fishers, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is described for associating a media file with an identifier. An identifier may be encoded as a physical and/or virtual label which may be affixed to a physical object and/or incorporated into an electronic document. When a request is received which comprises the identifier, a response in the form of a media file may be delivered. Access privileges associated with a request may be determined based on criteria such as elements of the label, member...