ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,157, issued on Sept. 2.
"Readout of optically readable codes" was invented by Dirk Schaefer (Leverkusen, Germany), Benjamin Hoetter (Overath, Germany), Gregor Fischer (Overath, Germany) and Klaus Ruelberg (Overath, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the technical field of the marking of articles by means of optically readable codes and of reading out the codes. The invention relates to a method, a system and a computer program product for detecting and interpreting optically readable codes that are introduced into the surfaces of articles."
The patent was filed on Dec. 15, 2022, under Application...