US Patent Issued to The Code on Dec. 16 for "Barcode-reading system that utilizes beacon messages to communicate information about barcode-reading devices" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,440, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Code Corp. (Murray, Utah).

"Barcode-reading system that utilizes beacon messages to communicate information about barcode-reading devices" was invented by Ryan Wayne Hoobler (Cottonwood Heights, Utah) and Steven Ned Pierce (West Jordan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A barcode-reading device can be configured to transmit a beacon message under certain circumstances in which the barcode-reading device may be lost, or may be likely to become lost, such as when a barcode-reading device becomes unintentionally disconnected from a base station. Intermediary systems can be configured to peri...