ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,817, issued on Oct. 14.
"Enhanced quick response (QR) code scan security" was invented by Hao Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Robert O'keefe (Taplow, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for enhanced QR code security are described herein. A computing platform may generate a QR code that includes an information code and a server code. The computing platform may split the QR code into first and second portions, where the first portion includes at least the server code. The computing platform may send, to a QR display device, the first portion for display. The computing platform may receive, from a user device, auth...