ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,127, issued on Oct. 28.

"Adaptive digital authentication and marketing data tracking" was invented by Peter Scheir (Pacific Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A QR management system redirects based on user-definable criteria, user set triggers or change events. A security indicium (printed, adhered label, tag or near field communication device) uses the code to direct to a standard URL or generated personalized URL to a website. The QR codes are assigned individually or allocated to a product range. Each code within the range can direct to a different location. The web page creation system allows the brand owner to populate...