ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,528, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Composite two-dimensional code and 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: "A composite two-dimensional code according to an embodiment of the present invention is a combination of a first two-dimensional code and a second two-dimensional code. The composite two-dimensional code includes a first cell having a first color, a second cell having a second col...