Norman Joseph Woodland

Norman Joseph Woodland (September 6, 1921 – December 9, 2012) was an American Jewish inventor and engineer, best known as one of the inventors of the barcode, for which he received a patent in October 1952. Later, employed by IBM, he developed the format which became the ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) of product labeling and check-out stands.

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