US Patent Issued to Xerox on March 25 for "Method and system for generating and printing three dimensional barcodes" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,780, issued on March 25, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Method and system for generating and printing three dimensional barcodes" was invented by Eliud Robles Flores (Rochester, N.Y.), Robert Bruce Anderson Jr. (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Timothy P. Foley (Marion, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for printing a three-dimensional object containing information embedded as three-dimensional physical representations are disclosed. The methods include receiving information to be embedded in the three-dimensional object, determining a mapping between the received information and a plurality of three-dimensi...