US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE on May 12 for "Automatically measuring an item based on a ratio between item dimensions and reference tag dimensions" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,502, issued on May 12, was assigned to UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (Washington).

"Automatically measuring an item based on a ratio between item dimensions and reference tag dimensions" was invented by Todd M. Schimmel (Annandale, Va.) and Ryan J. Simpson (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item measuring system and its relate processes may perform operations that include receiving an image of an item and a reference tag; identifying a perimeter of the item; identifying a type of the reference tag; identifying known dimensions of the reference tag based on the type; determining dimensions of the item in standardized units b...