ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,171, issued on Oct. 7.
"Method and device for accessing a web resource" was invented by Pascal Jarde (Montpellier, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method (10) for accessing a web resource comprises: a step (11) of capturing at least one image of an object bearing a visible graphic code comprising two portions; a step (12) of decoding, in a captured image of the graphic code, a first portion of code produced according to a first coding protocol, by a first standardised application, this first standardised portion of code representing access to a download site for a second application; and a step (16) of decoding, in a capture...