US Patent Issued to CargoSense on Oct. 27 for "Receiving secured data using optical codes and URLs" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,046, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CargoSense Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Receiving secured data using optical codes and URLs" was invented by Richard Allen Christopher Kilmer (Clifton, Va.) and Benjamin Aaron Wilson (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for receiving secured data, comprising: at a mobile device comprising an optical sensor: detecting an optical code by the optical sensor, wherein the optical code is physically associated with an entity that is being monitored. The method further comprises decoding a URL encoded in the optical code, wherein the URL comprises a signature and comprises an indication ...