ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,057, issued on Sept. 9.
"Two-dimensional barcodes for greater storage capacity" was invented by Arlon Blaine Harper (Houston) and Chase Joshua Harper (League City, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computer program product provide operations including obtaining first data encoded to form a first array of two-dimensional barcodes, obtaining second data encoded to form a second array of two-dimensional barcodes, and performing a forward mashup algorithm on the first array and second array to form a third array of two-dimensional barcodes, wherein, for each combination of column, row and ordinal position, a binary value...