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\"\"<\/a>The co-inventor of one of the most indispensable technologies of the 20th century that labels every retail product, the\u00c2\u00a0barcode<\/a>, has died.\u00c2\u00a0The death of Norman Joseph Woodland, who was 91, was confirmed by his daughter, Susan Woodland.\u00c2\u00a0She said he died on Sunday in Edgewater, New Jersey, from the effects of Alzheimer’s disease and complications of advanced age.<\/p>\n

Mr Woodland and Robert Silver were students at Philadelphia’s Drexel University when Mr Silver overheard a grocery store executive asking an administrator to support research on how product information could be captured at checkouts.\u00c2\u00a0The pair earned a patent in 1951 with Mr Woodland’s idea to create a shape of concentric circles.\u00c2\u00a0The technology did not catch on until the 1970s, when Mr Woodland’s employer IBM promoted a rectangular barcode that was adopted as the standard.<\/p>\n

The barcode may have come from a humble beginning but has become the de facto means of tracking any kind of product or process<\/a> today. Woodland’s innovation and contribution to the technology was crucial to improving businesses around the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The co-inventor of one of the most indispensable technologies of the 20th century that labels every retail product, the\u00c2\u00a0barcode, has died.\u00c2\u00a0The death of Norman Joseph Woodland, who was 91, was confirmed by his daughter, Susan Woodland.\u00c2\u00a0She said he died on Sunday in Edgewater, New Jersey, from the effects of Alzheimer’s disease and complications of advanced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[439,84,364,241],"yoast_head":"\nCo-Creator Of The Barcode Dies - Barcoding News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/co-creator-of-the-barcode-dies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Co-Creator Of The Barcode Dies - 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