ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,228, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Learning systems and methods" was invented by Tony F. Rodriguez (Portland, Ore.), Osama M. Alattar (Tigard, Ore.), Hugh L. Brunk (Portland, Ore.), Joel R. Meyer (Lake Oswego, Ore.), William Y. Conwell (Portland, Ore.) and Ajith M. Kamath (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sequence of images depicting an object is captured, e.g., by a camera at a point-of-sale terminal in a retail store. The object is identified, such as by a barcode or watermark that is detected from one or more of the images. Once the object's identity is known, such informati...