Woodland and Silver (US Patent 2,612,994)
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No one. In 2005, the U.S. Court of Appeals...
they held the first patent for bar code scanning - patent was applied for 1949 and was isssued in 1952 - original idea was to read a pattern of 4 lines printed in ultraviolet ink - first line was to...
As a creative work, the Bhagavad Gita would be protected by copyright rather than patent; that being said, the text dates from the 4th century BC, predating copyright by nearly 5000 years....