ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,211, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Scandit AG (Zurich).
"Label verification using image analysis" was invented by Fabian Nater (Zurich), Bernd Schoner (New York), Matthias Bloch (Zurich) and Christian Floerkemeier (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image analysis is used to provide label verification. An image of a label within a scene is acquired. The label includes a barcode and characters. The barcode on the label is decoded to receive an identity of an object. Optical character recognition is performed to recognize the characters on the label. Recognized characters are compared to information about decoded barcode to verif...