US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 20 for "Proof of presence using machine-readable codes" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,553, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Proof of presence using machine-readable codes" was invented by Bennet Daniel Gnanarajan (Singapore) and Sachin Kapoor (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for confirming proof-of-presence of a user device using machine-readable codes. The user device can initiate an image capture process using a camera. While in the image capture process, the user device can capture an image of a machine-readable code using the camera. The machine-readable code can include first information associated with a data exchange session at a server...