US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Aug. 11 for "System and method for securely obtaining information using QR codes" (Virginia, Illinois, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,809, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for securely obtaining information using QR codes" was invented by Adam Kristian King (Fort Mill, S.C.), Manil Trivedi (South Riding, Va.), Camilla Solideo (Chicago) and Steven Daniel Lawson (Glencoe, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory that stores a training dataset that includes solutions pertaining to determining malicious quick response (QR) codes; and a processor operably coupled to the memory. The processor receives an image of a QR code, and analyze the image of the QR code using the training dataset t...