US Patent Issued to WGRS Licensing on July 15 for "Systems and methods for voice activation of QR and other scannable codes" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,245, issued on July 15, was assigned to WGRS Licensing Co. LLC (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for voice activation of QR and other scannable codes" was invented by S. Lee Hancock (Corona del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for voice activation of QR codes and other scannable codes with shortcode identifiers ("CIDs"). CIDs are created, geographically registered, owned, controlled, displayed, and used for human to human, human to machine, and machine to machine input, communications, QR and other scannable code activations, searches and other uses. CIDs may be created, curated ...