ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,932, issued on July 21, was assigned to O&M Halyard Inc. (Glen Allen, Va.).
"Optimizing non-sequential parsing of information extracted from machine-readable codes" was invented by Michael Beall (Richmond, Va.), Christopher Farmer (Augusta, S.C.), Ishrat Jahan (Cheektowaga, N.Y.) and Monsur Ahmed (Queens, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Object information is received via an application programming interface (API) from a requesting computing device. The object information is (a) extracted from a machine-readable code associated with the object, or (b) derived from information extracted from the machine-readable code associated wit...