ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,910, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Image processing for scanning devices based on laser aimer position" was invented by Jian Li (Charlotte, N.C.), Minyi Wang (Charlotte, N.C.), Jian Xing (Charlotte, N.C.), Liu Hongyan (Charlotte, N.C.), Lidong Gu (Charlotte, N.C.) and Yu Hu (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image processing for scanning devices based on laser aimer position, wherein a first frame and a second frame of image data related to an object associated with a barcode are captured using a scanning device. A difference between first pixel data for a first grouping o...