ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. RE50,371, issued on April 8, was assigned to Varcode Ltd. (Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel).
"System and method for quality management utilizing barcode indicators" was invented by Yaron Nemet (Kedumim, Israel), Ephraim Brand (Givatayim, Israel) and Ahmed M. Tafesh (Acre, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of barcoded quality indicators, a barcode indicator reader and a product type responsive indication interpreter, each of the barcoded quality indicators including a first barcode including at least one first colorable area, the first barcode being machine-readable before exceedance...