ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,416, issued on June 16, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).
"Reading optical codes" was invented by Pascal Schuler (Waldkirch, Germany) and Steffen Zopf (Waldkirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic code reader for reading optical codes has at least one light reception element for generating image data from received light and a control and evaluation unit that is configured to segment the image data to locate regions of interest having assumed optical codes, and to further process the regions of interest by a decoding process to read the code content of an optical code in the region of interest. The c...