ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,800, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Multiple application QR code" was invented by Johannes Arnoldus Cornelis Bernsen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Oscar Garcia Morchon (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a multiple application QR code capable of storing information of a plurality of applications in such a way that a respective information can be retrieved for each application in a reliable and time-efficient manner. The information is encoded into encoded data including at least a header and a respective data container per appli...