ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,753, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Detection of barcode misplacement based on repetitive product detection" was invented by Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.), Yuri Astvatsaturov (Lake Forest, Ill.) and Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for product scanning are provided herein. The techniques may include analyzing a first set of images of items passing through a product scanning region of a indicia reader to decode a first indicia associated with a first item; analyzing the first set of images to determine first parameters related to...