US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Optical resolution determination from barcode chart images" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,239, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Optical resolution determination from barcode chart images" was invented by Ali Can (Andover, Mass.) and Frank Preiswerk (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for optical resolution determination from barcode chart images are described herein. In an example, a computer system receives an image captured by an image acquisition system having a camera with a lens. The image is of a chart including barcode sets arranged in one or more orientations with respect to an optical axis of the camera, and individual barcodes of a barcode set have a ...