US Patent Issued to Scandit on July 29 for "Building a catalog based on optical recognition of patterns in images" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,078, issued on July 29, was assigned to Scandit AG (Zurich).

"Building a catalog based on optical recognition of patterns in images" was invented by Bernd Schoner (New York), Thibault Priquel (Zurich), Oliver Akermann (Zurich) and Luc Humair (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera on a robot is used to acquire images of a shelving unit. Locations of labels are detected and cropped from the images to form segments. The segments are analyzed to obtain scan descriptions, without decoding barcodes on the labels. The scan descriptions are compared to catalog descriptions to match scan descriptions to catalog descriptions. Products...