US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on May 20 for "System and method using a histogram and colorspaces to create a matrix barcode having a plurality of colors" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,310, issued on May 20, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"System and method using a histogram and colorspaces to create a matrix barcode having a plurality of colors" was invented by Austin Grant Walters (Savoy, Ill.), Jeremy Edward Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.) and Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes determining, by a processor based on a histogram of an environment, a most prevalent color of a plurality of prevalent colors associated with the environment by mapping the most prevalent color and the plurality of prevalent colors according to ...