US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on March 31 for "Laser marked articles with machine readable codes" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,608, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Laser marked articles with machine readable codes" was invented by Matthew Aaron Neumann (Montgomery, Ohio), Joseph Craig Lester (Liberty Township, Ohio), Marc Andrew Mamak (Mason, Ohio), Erika Arlene Womack (Cincinnati), Ariel Lebron (Cincinnati) and Adam James Viel (Guilford, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet of material that is marked with a pulsed laser, having an outer surface and an inner surface separated by a core. There is a first layer beginning at the outer surface and extending into the core less than about 60 micron, and there is ...