ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,896, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method to determine and highlight defective labels" was invented by Praveen Allaka (Indian Land, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed. The system comprises at least one reader configured to scan one or more labels and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one reader. Further, the at least one processor is configured to determine a grade value or encoded information associated with each of the one or more labels based at least on the scanning, compare the determined grade value or the encoded inf...