ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,371, issued on June 10, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Automatic training data sample collection" was invented by Patrenahalli M. Narendra (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a mobile computing device includes: controlling a camera to capture an image; tracking a pose of the mobile computing device, corresponding to the image, in a coordinate system; detecting an item in the image; determining a location of the detected item in the coordinate system, based on the tracked pose; obtaining an item identifier corresponding to the detected item, based on the location of the de...