ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,659, issued on July 29, was assigned to ABBYY Development Inc. (Dover, Del.).
"Decoding of linear barcodes under unfavorable conditions" was invented by Ivan Zagaynov (Dolgoprudniy, Russia), Dmitry Zvonarev (Sarapul, Russia) and Maksim Baranchikov (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and implementations provide for mechanisms of detection and decoding of barcodes in images. The disclosed techniques include estimating dimensions of a module of a barcode based on geometric characteristics of a barcode image, forming hypotheses that group modules into barcode symbols, and assessing viability of formed hypotheses. Various opera...