ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,379, issued on March 18, was assigned to DENSO WAVE Inc. (Aichi-Pref., Japan).

"Information reader" was invented by Kentaro Sasaki (Chita-gun, Japan), Koji Konosu (Chita-gun, Japan), Yuichi Ito (Chita-gun, Japan), Yosuke Kanbe (Chita-gun, Japan), Takeshi Fujisumi (Chita-gun, Japan), Yoshihiro Yamazaki (Chita-gun, Japan) and Ryohei Kagami (Chita-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an information reader, a first relationship information, which defines the two-dimensional area of a first information code (e.g., the position coordinates of the four corner points), is detected from a first information code image. The first infor...