ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,903, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Horst Tech LLC (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Sensing device and report generation web site accessed through dynamic QR codes" was invented by Robert W. Horst (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing device comprising a battery, sensing devices, programmable controller, memory and user interface capable of displaying a QR code. Code running in the programmable device for recording sensor values and encoding them into a device data string and converting the string into a web site address for requesting a report. A web site with code for decoding the query string, appending user supplied d...