ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,162, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LocatorX Inc. (Kissimmee, Fla.).

"Determination of counterfeit products via certified quick response codes and a trusted product certificate authority" was invented by William D. Meadow (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Server-implemented methods for detecting counterfeit products. A server receives a product identifier and associated attribute data from a user device, compares this data with stored authentic data, and determines the likelihood of counterfeiting. If the likelihood exceeds a predetermined threshold, a notification is transmitted to the user device. The method in...