ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,114, issued on March 11, was assigned to Hubei University of Economics (Hubei, China) and Dachang Technology Development Co. Ltd (Wuhan, China).

"Stripe image processing method and apparatus for camera optical communication" was invented by Wenping Liu (Hubei, China), Qian Deng (Hubei, China), Guoqiang Fu (Hubei, China), Sihan Li (Hubei, China), Zeliang Huang (Hubei, China), Zhongwei Chen (Hubei, China) and Yamin Li (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure belongs to the field of visible light communication, and specifically discloses a stripe image processing method and apparatus for camera optical communication....