ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,635, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Motion-based frame synchronization" was invented by Raghavendra Tenkasi Shankar (Holbrook, N.Y.) and Ted D. Trask (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: capturing, via a first sensor, a three-dimensional image associated with a first orientation of a computing device; capturing, via a second sensor, a two-dimensional image associated with a second orientation of the computing device; determining a difference between the first orientation and the second orientation; comparing the difference with a threshold; and determining...