Every purchase evokes his design of the rectangular Universal Product Code. But although it became ubiquitous, he received no royalties. By Sam Roberts George J. Laurer, whose design of the vertically ...

George Laurer, whose invention of the Universal Product Code at IBM transformed retail and other industries around the world, has died. He was 94. A funeral was held on Monday for Mr. Laurer, who died ...

Artificial intelligence seems to be everywhere these days, with more companies integrating the technology into their systems and developers across the globe finding new ways to use it, for both good ...

What's black and white and read all over? Bar codes that can tell us who manufactured a product and where it's been — except when it comes to the financial services industry. Here, financial firms and ...

Product bar codes were originally developed to help with inventory tracking and speed up checkout at grocery stores. The relative speed and ease of use of the bar code system, or Universal Product ...

Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver patented the bar code 60 years ago 1st product sold using UPC scan? 67-cent pack of Wrigley's gum The idea for thick and thin bars came to Woodland on the ...

Using AI and machine learning, Foodspace’s technology can “look” at a photo or video of a product label and quickly catalog data including brand name, product name, net weight, nutritional information ...

George Laurer had no idea his design would reach well beyond retail outlets when he created the black line and number sets known as the modern bar code while working for IBM as an engineer. Forty ...

Universal Product Code apps for the iPhone let shoppers find additional information and perform price comparisons on products while inside a store. They also let allow an iPhone to serve as a front ...