ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,129, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Augmented aimer for symbology readers" was invented by Shankar Ban (Charlotte, N.C.), Benjamin Hejl (Charlotte, N.C.), Xiaofeng Xie (Charlotte, N.C.), David M. Wilz Sr. (Charlotte, N.C.) and Erik Van Horn (Charlotte, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide apparatuses, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products for generating an augmented aimer and using the augmented aimer to generate an augmented image. The augmented image is usable to aim a device, such as a reader, that captures image(s) for processing to detect and/...