ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,403, issued on July 15, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Facilitating user selection of one of multiple barcodes in a camera system field of view" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Rahul Bharat Desai (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Hariprasad Shanbhogue Alampady (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes at least one camera system. When the camera application is running, the scene from the at least one camera system is analyzed to identify one or more barcodes in the scene. In some situations, multiple barcodes encoding payment links are identified in the scene. In s...