ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,897, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"4D indicium mapping for moving objects" was invented by Duanfeng He (South Setauket, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tracking objects in space are disclosed. The systems and methods include capturing two-dimensional (2D) image data from which a indicium is decoded and capturing, generating, or otherwise accessing three-dimensional (3D) image data from which a 3D object is identified. A 2D image of a indicium and indicium data is combined with the 3D object to form reference 3D object data that is used for comparison to ...