US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Dec. 2 for "Dynamic machine-readable codes" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,369, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Dynamic machine-readable codes" was invented by Thomas Kirk (Califon, N.J.), Thomas J. Killian (Westfield, N.J.) and Christopher W. Rice (Parsippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a condition under which a sign has been viewed includes receiving a uniform resource locator from a user endpoint device, where the uniform resource locator is embedded in a machine-readable code displayed on the sign, and extracting information from the uniform resource locator, where the information describes the condition under which the sign ...