ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,571, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Scandit AG (Zurich).

"Image analysis for scanning optical patterns in a real scene at dynamic ranges" was invented by Marco Biasini (Zurich, Switzerland), Yeara Kozlov (Zurich, Switzerland), Geoffrey Quested-Jones (Tampere, Finland), Daniel Scherly (Zurich, Switzerland) and Simon Wenner (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To decode an optical pattern in a real scene, an optical pattern is detected in one or more images acquired by a camera, a distance from the optical pattern to the camera is estimated, the distance from the optical pattern to the camera is compared to a threshold...