US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on May 27 for "Object identification using surface optical artifacts" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,185, issued on May 27, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Object identification using surface optical artifacts" was invented by Daniel F. Donato (Johnsburg, Ill.), James J. O'Hagan (McHenry, Ill.), Tom D. Bianculli (Holtsville, N.Y.) and Stuart Peter Hubbard (Loughborough, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of object identification includes: capturing an image of an object having a material presenting surface artifacts; detecting a boundary within the captured image; selecting a portion of the image depicting the surface material within the boundary; based on the selected portion of th...