ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,508, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Scanning optical codes with improved energy efficiency" was invented by Daniel Ryan Bersak (Astoria, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for scanning optical codes with improved energy efficiency are disclosed. In some embodiments, a disclosed method includes: obtaining a video captured by a camera; determining, based on a machine learning model, whether an optical code is included in any frame image of the video; presenting a viewable area on a display operatively coupled to the camera, once the video starts to include at least a por...