US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Weight check for verification of ticket switching" (New York, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,745, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Weight check for verification of ticket switching" was invented by Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.), Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.) and Yuri Astvatsaturov (Lake Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for weight checking to verify ticket switching are disclosed. The system includes a weighing scale, cameras to capture images of items and their barcodes, a processor, and memory with instructions. The processor determines a first identification from a barcode image and a second identification from an item image. It co...