he first patent for a bar code type product (US Patent #2,612,994) was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952. The Woodland and Silver bar code can be described as a "bull's eye" symbol, made up of a series of concentric circles.
Examine the 1958 patent drawing (see first image) that depicts the Woodland's and Silver's bar code label and the 1958 patent drawing (see second image)of the inventors' bar code scanner technology.