ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,845, issued on March 11, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Barcode detection using a multi-camera system" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Hariprasad Shanbhogue Alampady (Bangalore, India) and Rahul Bharat Desai (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes multiple camera systems each having one or both of a different field of view or a focus range. For example, the computing device may include a telephoto camera system, a wide angle camera system, an ultra-wide angle camera system, and a macro camera system. When a camera application is running, the scenes f...