Inventor of Barcode, George Laurer, Passes Away at 94
- George Joseph Laurer, known for the invention of the Universal Product Code (UPC), commonly known as the barcode, in 1973 at IBM has passed away.
- He was 94.
- Laurer was an electrical engineer with IBM in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park in the early 1970s when he spearheaded the development of the UPC to transform retail and other industries around the world.