Article: U.S., French Inventors Develop Machine-Readable Symbol Acquiring Method

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Jean-Louis Massieu of Montauban, France, and H. Sprague Ackley of Seattle, have developed an optoelectronic device.

According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a process for acquiring symbols by interleaving data samples in a plurality of data sets gathered during sampling of returns from a plurality of scanning passes. In one embodiment, the sampling frequency is proportional to the scanning frequency by a quotient of twice the number of samples in a representation and an integer such that the quotient is an irreducible fraction."

The patent has been assigned to Intermec IP Corp., Everett, Wash.

The inventors were ...

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