ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,713, issued on July 22.
"Remote check-in using optical character recognition of bag tag" was invented by Craig Mateer (Orlando, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of remote check-in using optical character recognition of a bag tag is provided, the method including: a) obtaining, by at least one of at least one processor, image data representative of at least one image of printed passenger information associated with an airline travel carrier on an originating hardcopy bag tag or a printed instrument having at least a portion of the printed passenger information on the originating hardcopy bag tag to create a digi...