ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,812, issued on April 22, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Information processing system" was invented by Kenichiro Tami (Yokohama, Japan), Naomi Iida (Yokohama, Japan), Shinya Nasubida (Yokohama, Japan), Go Kinoshita (Yokohama, Japan) and Haruhito Suga (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes a first acquisition section acquiring first pattern data from electronic data, a second acquisition section acquiring second pattern data from a database, and a generation section combining the first pattern data with the second pattern data to generate a two-dimensional code...