US Patent Issued to United States Postal Service on Feb. 24 for "System and method for reading a computer readable code" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,540, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).

"System and method for reading a computer readable code" was invented by Ryan J. Simpson (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system for reading a barcode independently of image resolution or scale of a captured barcode image. In one embodiment, the system includes an optical sensor and a processor. The optical scanner can scan a barcode, including a plurality of bars and spaces, into a scanned image. The processor can convert the scanned image into binary data. The processor can also calculate numbers of ones...