US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on March 31 for "Apparatus and method for deterring a third party from copying a product or process" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,092, issued on March 31, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for deterring a third party from copying a product or process" was invented by Arash Behravesh (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, deterring a third party from copying a product or process may include scanning code to generate scanned code. Text in the scanned code may be read and/or at least one image in the scanned code may be recognized. The text and/or the at least one image may be analyzed to determine whether the code includes a specified trademark. Based on a determination that the code ...