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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,609, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Laser marked articles with machine readable codes" was invented by Philip Andrew Sawin (Wyoming, Ohio), Matthew Aaron Neumann (Montgomery, Ohio), Joseph Craig Lester (Liberty Township, Ohio), Marc Andrew Mamak (Mason, Ohio), Erika Arlene Womack (Cincinnati), Ariel Lebron (Cincinnati) and Joseph Henry Nurre (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet of material that is marked in a predetermined pattern with a pulsed laser on its outer surface. The sheet material is a layered material that has an outer surface and an inner surface separate...