ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,417, issued on June 16, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).
"Reading an optical code" was invented by Pascal Schuler (Waldkirch, Germany) and Steffen Zopf (Waldkirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reading an optical code encodes a message that has a character chain having a plurality of characters. The method includes recording image data having the optical code; segmenting the image data to locate a region of interest having the optical code; evaluating the image data within the region of interest to read the message; and comparing the read characters of the message with at least one scheme that contai...