ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,999, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System for adaptive decoder management in secure data processing" was invented by Charles Yeomans (Orinda, Calif.), Edward Woolen (Cleburne, Texas), Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.) and Etienne Coulon (Saint-Jorioz, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed for encoding and decoding QR codes using proprietary compression codebooks to increase information density and provide data security. Public data is encoded using a standard codebook while private data uses a proprietary codebook. The encoded data is combined into a single QR co...