US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 26 for "Time-of-scan protection for a scannable encoded image in an electronic message or an electronic form" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,434, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Time-of-scan protection for a scannable encoded image in an electronic message or an electronic form" was invented by Jason Timothy Rogers (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing time-of-scan protection for a scannable encoded image in an electronic message or an electronic form. An electronic message or electronic form is received. The electronic message or electronic form includes a scannable encoded image. A uniform resource identifier (URI) that is encoded in the scanna...