ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,843, issued on March 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Quick response codes" was invented by Brett Barros (San Mateo, Calif.) and Alexander James Faaborg (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques include using a sensor of a computing device to detect the presence of a first portion of a code, the code including at least the first portion and a second portion, where the first portion of the code is decodable and includes an identifier and the second portion of the code is non-decodable. The computing device recognizes the identifier in the first portion of the code and obtains...