US Patent Issued to J.S.T. on March 24 for "Hidden releasable barcode or QR code for indicating mating or non-mating of two elements, and operation thereof" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,957, issued on March 24, was assigned to J.S.T. Corp. (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

"Hidden releasable barcode or QR code for indicating mating or non-mating of two elements, and operation thereof" was invented by David Demaratos (Wixom, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hidden releasable barcode or QR code for indicating mating or non-mating of two elements, which includes a concealing feature which indicates the non-mating of said two elements, and an indicating feature which indicates the mating of said two elements. The concealing feature and the indicating feature are one and the same structure with no relative motion between...