US Patent Issued to Bank of America on April 14 for "QR code verification engine" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,560, issued on April 14, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"QR code verification engine" was invented by Allison Glenn (Chicago), Benjamin F. Tweel (Romeoville, Ill.), Khushbu Bansal (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Jack Bishop (Evanston, Ill.) and Siyuan Li (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A QR Code Verification Engine provides a multi-layered security framework for generating, validating, and authenticating QR codes while preventing tampering, fraud, and unauthorized access. The system embeds a hidden security layer within the QR code using steganographic encoding or invisible watermarking techniques, en...