ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,073, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Platform for registering and processing visual encodings" was invented by Alexander James Faaborg (Mountain View, Calif.) and Brett Aladdin Barros (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the processing of machine-readable visual encodings in view of contextual information. One embodiment of aspects of the present disclosure comprises obtaining image data descriptive of a scene that includes a machine-readable visual encoding; processing the image data with a first recognition system configured to recogniz...