Patent 7992784 was granted and assigned to Hand Held Products on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of reading indicia having encrypted data provided therein comprising the steps of: scanning indicia utilizing an indicia reader; recognizing the presence of encrypted data in the indicia; retrieving an appropriate encryption key for decrypting the encrypted data; decrypting the data utilizing the encryption key; and, decoding the decrypted data.