US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 10 for "Device, method, and graphical user interface for handling data encoded in machine-readable format" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,860, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device, method, and graphical user interface for handling data encoded in machine-readable format" was invented by Behkish Johnnie Manzari (San Francisco), Ada Chan (Cupertino, Calif.), Yongjun Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Patrick Lee Coffman (San Francisco), Charles Ying (San Mateo, Calif.) and Steven Jon Falkenburg (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device displays a media capture user interface that includes a media capture preview of objects in a field of view of the camera. While displaying the media capture user interface, the el...