ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,921, issued on March 4, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for sharing information between/among users" was invented by Brittany Louise Mason (Dallas), Jasmine Chung (Garland, Texas), Holly Smith (Dallas), Paul Taylor (Round Rock, Texas), Robert Oakley Jr. (Louisville, Ky.) and Laura Trujillo (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example: receiving, from a first mobile communication device of a first user, first information associated with a computer-readable indicia that has been scanned by the first mobile communication device, w...