ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,458, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).
"Image-based barcode decoding" was invented by Shiyuan Yang (Jersey City, N.J.), Yilin Huang (Shanghai), Wentao Pan (Shanghai) and Xiao Zhou (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A barcode decoding system decodes item identifiers from images of barcodes. The barcode decoding system receives an image of a barcode and rotates the image to a pre-determined orientation. The barcode decoding system also may segment the barcode image to emphasize the portions of the image that correspond to the barcode. The barcode decoding system generates a binary sequence represe...