ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,274, issued on March 25, was assigned to SCRIBOS GmbH (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Method, system, computer program and computer-readable medium for attaching a number of unique identification codes from a set of unique identification codes to a number of objects" was invented by Steffen Scheibenstock (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for attaching a number of unique identification codes (13) from a set of unique identification codes (13) to a number of objects, wherein the unique identification codes (13) differ from one another, wherein the unique identification codes (13) form a predefined code sequence which...