US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on Aug. 5 for "Method, device, and system for generating, repairing, and identifying an incomplete QR code" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,302, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Method, device, and system for generating, repairing, and identifying an incomplete QR code" was invented by Jiaheng Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Jun Xie (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reading a QR code is described. The method includes capturing an image of an incomplete QR code. The incomplete QR code has a missing region with a missing functional pattern. Further, the functional pattern is added to the missing region in the incomplete QR code to form a recovered QR code. Subsequently, pixels are added random...