US Patent Issued to DUST Identity on Nov. 25 for "Generating a unique code from orientation information" (New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,850, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DUST Identity Inc. (Newton, Mass.).

"Generating a unique code from orientation information" was invented by Ophir Gaathon (Needham, Mass.) and Jonathan Hodges (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a general aspect, orientation information is used to generate a unique code. In some aspects, orientation information is extracted from an object. The object includes multiple elements, and the orientation information indicates the relative spatial orientations of the respective elements. The orientation information can be extracted, for instance, by a scanner system that detects the elem...