US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on June 9 for "System and method for validating depth data for a dimensioning operation" (Sri Lankan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,362, issued on June 9, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"System and method for validating depth data for a dimensioning operation" was invented by Sumudu B. Abeysekara (Marassana, Sri Lanka) and Michael Wijayantha Medagama (Nawala, Sri Lanka).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes: obtaining, by a depth sensor, depth data representing a distance to a target object and an environment of the target object; selecting a subset of the depth data representing a reference surface in the environment; comparing the subset of the depth data to a flatness condition; when the subset of the depth dat...