US Patent Issued to SICK on Dec. 16 for "Code reading device and method for the parallel reading of a plurality of codes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,338, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).

"Code reading device and method for the parallel reading of a plurality of codes" was invented by Stefan Lais (Waldkirch, Germany), Carl Joseph Hafner (Waldkirch, Germany), Manfred Pierl (Waldkirch, Germany), Tobias Zimmermann (Waldkirch, Germany) and Jaroslaw Ermantraut (Waldkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code reading unit for the parallel reading of a plurality of codes on a plurality of objects in a conveying unit is provided, wherein the code reading device has a camera unit having at least one camera head for recording an image of the objects ...