ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,737, issued on May 20, was assigned to Scandit AG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Adaptive selection area for image-based decoding of optical patterns" was invented by Thomas Wesner (Zurich, Switzerland), Christian Floerkemeier (Zurich, Switzerland), Maiya Shur (Zurich, Switzerland) and Bernd Schoner (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Selection of on optical pattern in a scene is identified by overlaying, on a display, an indicator of a detected optical pattern identifying a location of the optical pattern in one or more images, receiving a user input on the display at a position that does not overlap the location of the optical patter...