ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,085, issued on April 7, was assigned to SPOT VISION LLC (Milwaukie, Ore.).
"Use of imperfect patterns to encode data on surfaces" was invented by Joshua Victor Aller (Oak Grove, Ore.) and Nicholas Riehl (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention include ascribing a predetermined data record to a physical surface in the form of an imperfect aesthetic pattern of marks. An image showing a portion of the surface, when processed with a decoder, yields the predetermined, verified data record."
The patent was filed on July 26, 2022, under Application No. 18/684,013.
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