ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,682, issued on Jan. 27.

"Encryption and decryption of visible codes for real time augmented reality views" was invented by Roy S. Melzer (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decrypting an encrypted message. The method comprises storing a wearer decryption code in a memory of a wearable mobile device having a head-worn augmented display which generates an augmented reality view for a wearer of the wearable mobile device, capturing using the wearable mobile device a video sequence including at least one frame imaging a visible code using an image sensor of the wearable mobile device, processing the video sequenc...