US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 14 for "Techniques for managing animated codes" (California, Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,814, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for managing animated codes" was invented by Yuan Yen Tai (Pleasanton, Calif.), Xiaoyuan Gu (Orinda, Calif.), Brian Knott (New York), Dayvid Victor Rodrigues De Oliveira (Round Rock, Texas) and Jia Huang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments set forth techniques for encoding information into animated codes. The techniques can include the steps of (1) receiving a request to generate an animated code based on the input data, (2) generating a sequence of visual elements based on the input data, (3) separating the sequence ...