US Patent Issued to SICK on June 23 for "Reading an optical code" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,387, issued on June 23, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).

"Reading an optical code" was invented by Jonathan Steinbuch (Waldkirch, Germany), Vicky Hallmann (Waldkirch, Germany) and Sofia Baer (Waldkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reading an optical code (20); is provided, the method comprising the steps of recording image data having the optical code (20); determining defects (30), and evaluating the image data by reading the code words. In this respect, the defects (30) are determined using an edge criterion and/or a binarization criterion, wherein the edge criterion evaluates whether there is a ...