ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,141, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Datalogic IP Tech S.r.l. (Lippo di Calderara di Reno, Italy).

"Fixed retail scanner with translator to convert embedded non-video data as video data and related methods of using histogram data" was invented by Kyle Frischman (Eugene, Ore.), WenLiang Gao (Eugene, Ore.) and Alan Guess (Veneta, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes a fixed retail scanner and related method for converting embedded register statistical data from one or more images into pixel data that is combined with image pixel data that is sent to the system processor for a fixed retail scanner. Such statist...