US Patent Issued to The Ritsumeikan Trust, Nozaki Insatsu Shigyo on March 25 for "Two-dimensional code, generation device, and reading device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,290, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Ritsumeikan Trust (Kyoto, Japan) and Nozaki Insatsu Shigyo Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Two-dimensional code, generation device, and reading device" was invented by Takakuni Douseki (Shiga, Japan), Yohei Fukumizu (Shiga, Japan), Junichi Misawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Kentaro Kimura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-dimensional code 100 includes a plurality of lines L arranged in a second direction (X direction) at an interval S, and each line L includes a plurality of cells that indicate a plurality of bits and are arranged in series in a first direction (Y direction) orthogonal ...