ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,127, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Assistive detection of visual states for monitoring devices" was invented by James Roger Morley-Smith (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Cameron James Smith (Whitchurch, Great Britain) and Hannah Marie Legg (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a computing device includes: capturing, via a camera of a computing device, an image of a monitoring device including a sensor, the sensor presenting an active one of a set of predefined visual states; detecting, within the image, a machine-readable indicium disposed on the monitoring device; determin...