ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,097, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).

"Piezoelectric and acoustic quick response codes" was invented by Vamshi Krishna Chillara (Los Alamos, N.M.), Christopher Nobuo Hakoda (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Cristian Pantea (Los Alamos, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are acoustic quick response codes and piezoelectric quick response (PQR) codes. Examples of the disclosure leverage acoustics and vibrations for information storage and retrieval. Applications of examples of the disclosure may include the development of embedded product tags, tamper-evident seals and/or tags, and/or an ...