ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,378, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Visual marker with user selectable appearance" was invented by Mohamed Selim Ben Himane (Palo Alto, Calif.), Anselm Grundhoefer (Campbell, Calif.), Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jeffrey S. Norris (Saratoga, Calif.), Paul Ewers (San Jose, Calif.), Scott G. Wade (Seattle), Thomas G. Salter (San Francisco) and Tom Sengelaub (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide detecting and decoding of visual markers that encode data. In some implementations, a v...