US Patent Issued to Xerox on Nov. 25 for "Methods and systems for encoding data using artificial fingerprints" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,140, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Methods and systems for encoding data using artificial fingerprints" was invented by Guo-Yau Lin (The Woodlands, Texas), Eliud Robles Flores (Rochester, N.Y.), David R. Stookey (Walworth, N.Y.) and Varun Sambhy (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for encoding data in a machine-readable image (e.g., an artificial fingerprint) are disclosed. The methods include segmenting a plurality of bits included in a bit stream to be encoded into a plurality of blocks such that each block includes two or more of the plurality of bits. The plurali...