US Patent Issued to DENSO on Aug. 25 for "Information code and code generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,046, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Information code and code generation method" was invented by Koichi Nakao (Kariya-city, Japan), Mitsuo Okumura (Kariya-city, Japan) and Tatsuya Okabe (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information code includes an information recording area and a state reference area. The information code is generated by combining two pre-combination codes, each of which records information by an array of light cells and dark cells. The information recording area includes multiple types of composite cells, which have different states from the light cells and...