US Patent Issued to Humane on Feb. 4 for "Bar code detection and authentication for contactless transactions using wearable multimedia device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,240, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Humane Inc. (San Francisco).

"Bar code detection and authentication for contactless transactions using wearable multimedia device" was invented by Imran A. Chaudhri (San Francisco), Patrick Gates (San Francisco), Bethany Bongiorno (San Francisco), Yanir Nulman (San Francisco) and Monique Relova (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a wearable multimedia device, comprises: a housing configured to attach to clothing of a user; a wide field-of-view camera embedded in the housing; one or more processors; memory storing instructions that when executed by the one...