ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,992, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BAYER AG (Leverkusen, Germany).
"Readout of optically readable codes" was invented by Dirk Schaefer (Leverkusen, Germany), Benjamin Hoetter (Overath, Germany), Gregor Fischer (Overath, Germany) and Klaus Ruelberg (Overath, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the technical field of the marking of articles by means of optically readable codes and of decoding the codes. Such a code is introduced into a surface of an article. The code is decoded on the basis of a transformed captured image of the code. The transformed captured image is generated from at least one...