US Patent Issued to Scandit on Aug. 18 for "Label capture using optical pattern recognition and barcode semantics" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,794, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Scandit AG (Zurich).

"Label capture using optical pattern recognition and barcode semantics" was invented by Christian Kundig (Zurich, Switzerland), Oliver Akermann (Zurich, Switzerland), Bernd Schoner (New York), Luc Humair (Zurich, Switzerland), Luis Haug (Zurich, Switzerland) and Marco Maggipinto (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more images of a real scene are analyzed to identify a plurality of text fields and one or more barcodes. A plurality of edges are defined, wherein each edge of the plurality of edges links a text field of the plurality of text fields with a...