US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on June 23 for "Utilizing on-device sensors to detect a scan" (Washington, Florida, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,386, issued on June 23, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Utilizing on-device sensors to detect a scan" was invented by Matteo Visentin (Seattle), Dean Jackson (Pittsburgh), John Stephen Ketchpaw (Seattle), James F Geist Jr. (Oviedo, Fla.) and Francislav P Penov (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed towards systems and method for determining whether a scannable code displayed on a client device has been scanned. In particular, the systems and methods described herein involve activating one or more on-board sensors of the client device to capture output signals. Bas...