ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,840, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to S.C.R. (ENGINEERS) Ltd. (Netanya, Israel).

"Global and local matrix code dictionaries" was invented by Eliyahou Kamhine (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Eran Genzel (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Ari Abramson Liani (Binyamina, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed subject matter aims to a system and method for animal identification. The system and method involve the use of global and local dictionaries, such that each local dictionary is associated with a set of matrix code markers derived from a plurality of matrix code markers associated with a global dictionary. The local dictionaries m...