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The inventors of the now-ubiquitous barcode received a patent 70 years ago

Oct 7, 2022
Inspired in part by Morse code, the barcode was originally conceived of as concentric circles.
Bernard Silver and Norman Joseph Woodland came up with the barcode concept, which got a patent a mere 70 years ago.
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