ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,729, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DATALOGIC IP TECH S.R.L. (Bologna, Italy).
"Direct part marking code reading with multimodal object sensing" was invented by Michele Suman (Ponte San Nicolo' Padova, Italy), Simone Tobia (Bologna, Italy) and Mattia Fabbri (Gatteo, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical symbol reading system comprises an image sensor operative to capture an image of a target area, a color-sensing system sensitive to certain colors in the visible spectrum, an illumination system operative to produce various types of illumination based on illumination parameters, and a surface-profiling system arranged to...