ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,450, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for encoding hardware-calculated metadata into raw images for transfer and storage and imaging devices" was invented by Justin F. Barish (Kings Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for encoding metadata in image data captured by an imaging device, such as a barcode device or machine vision device, are provided. An example method includes analyzing raw image data at a front-end applicant specific integrated circuit to determine image metadata for each of a plurality of different pixel groupings collectiv...