US Patent Issued to Datalogic USA on April 15 for "Anti-theft scanning system and methods of detecting theft" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,476, issued on April 15, was assigned to Datalogic USA Inc. (Eugene, Ore.).

"Anti-theft scanning system and methods of detecting theft" was invented by Alexander M. McQueen (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are components, systems, and methods of a scanning system that operates in a retail environment to deter and prevent theft of items. The systems and methods include a plurality of imagers to capture a plurality of images of the item, and identifying key feature locations of the item based on the captured images. The systems and methods include a scanner to read a machine-readable symbol attached to the i...