ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,463, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Shanghai Hode Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Two-dimensional code-based data processing method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Yaqin Huang (Shanghai), Xiang Cao (Shanghai), Haoran Wang (Shanghai), Tianpeng Zhou (Shanghai) and Yi Dai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a two-dimensional code-based data processing method, apparatus, and system, where the two-dimensional code-based data processing method includes: receiving and parsing a material to be parsed to obtain a two-dimensional code and a target material, where the two-dimensional code ...