US Patent Issued to SICK on Sept. 1 for "Reading optical codes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,993, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).

"Reading optical codes" was invented by Pascal Schuler (Waldkirch, Germany), Christofer Roser (Waldkirch, Germany), Thorsten Falk (Waldkirch, Germany), Sascha Burghardt (Waldkirch, Germany) and Romain Muller (Waldkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reading optical codes is provided comprising the steps of recording an image, locating code zones in the image, and decoding the optical codes in the code zones, wherein the locating of code zones has a first segmentation process with machine learning by which first candidates for code zones are fou...