ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,291, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (Mentor, Ohio).
"Systems containing multiple read zones and methods of use thereof" was invented by Mark Roth (North Miami, Fla.), Curtis T. Stackable (Clawson, Mich.) and Frederick Bleckmann (Barrington, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of using multiple read area zones to generate more accurate item-level data are described herein. In some embodiments, the systems and methods involve a local read area in combination with a wide read area. In some embodiments, a local area read device alone, or in combination with a wide area ...