US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 23 for "Optical data reader with multi-lane conveyor" (British, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,323, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Optical data reader with multi-lane conveyor" was invented by Krista Anna Alice Paasonen (Espoo, Finland), Julie Wilmien Visser (Cambridge, Great Britain), Esa Tapani Raikkonen (Espoo, Finland) and Philip Athelstan Wainman (Bishops Stortford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical data reader comprises a conveyor, an optical system, and a controller. The conveyor is configured to move a plurality of optical substrates along a plurality of lanes. Each optical substrate includes a plurality of waveplates arranged along its dir...