ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,361, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Analyzing QR code risk" was invented by Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Zhi Li Guan (HaiDian District, China), Sheng Yan Sun (Beijing), Jun Su (Beijing), Kun Yang (Beijing) and Yi Wen Huang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for risk analysis is provided. The present invention may include receiving an access request. The present invention may include analyzing a matrix barcode associated with the access request. The present invention may include validating the matrix barcode. The pre...