US Patent Issued to SICK on July 1 for "Method of reading an optical code and optoelectronic code reader" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,768, issued on July 1, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).

"Method of reading an optical code and optoelectronic code reader" was invented by Romain Muller (Waldkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reading an optical code is provided in which an image having the code is recorded, a first brightness adaptation of the image is carried out, a region of interest having the optical code is localized in the image, and the optical code in the region of interest is read. In this respect, the first brightness adaptation is a local brightness adaptation that is carried out in partial regions of the image still whi...