G06K 19/06131
The marking comprising a target pattern
Official title: {the marking comprising a target pattern, e.g. for indicating the center of the bar code or for helping a bar code reader to properly orient the scanner or to retrieve the bar code inside of an image}
G06K19/06131 (The marking comprising a target pattern) appears on 99 US grants and 92 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
- 99
- Published applications
- 92
- Assignees
- 84
- Inventors
- 236
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Article for an aerosol generation device comprising an information code10 Feb 2026US 12,543,776 B2JT International SA
- Two-dimensional code generation and decoding methods, apparatuses, and devices21 Jan 2025US 12,204,967 B2Alipay .Com Co., Ltd.
- Genuine-product certification content creation device and integrated certification system using the same10 Dec 2024US 12,165,157 B2Ck&B Co., Ltd.
- Collation device and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program9 Jul 2024US 12,035,040 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Performance arena for robots with position location system30 Apr 2024US 11,971,727 B2Innovation First, Inc.
- Methods, Apparatuses, and Systems for Contact Lenses Having Writable Optical Patterns20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244888 A1
- Optical laminate23 Apr 2026US 2026/0111697 A1Nitto Denko Corporation
- Authentication apparatus, authentication apparatus arrangement, and authentication device26 Mar 2026US 2026/0087293 A1Infineon Technologies AG
- Method of Dynamically Encoding Information and Applying a Code to a Material and a Method of Decoding the Information30 Oct 2025US 2025/0335730 A1Deeplai Prosta Spólka Akcyjna
- Machine vision marker, system and method for identifying and determining a pose of a target object using a machine vision marker, and method of manufacturing a machine vision marker6 Feb 2025US 2025/0045950 A1Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fiducial detection system479US 7,231,063 B2InterSense, Inc. · 2007
- Custom functional patterns for optical barcodes329US 9,659,244 B2Snap Inc. · 2017
- Optically readable coded target108US 5,260,556 AAustralian Meat & Live-Stock Research & Development Corp. · 1993
- Identification of object on interactive display surface by identifying coded pattern93US 7,204,428 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2007
- Method of identifying a plurality of labels having data fields within a machine readable border90US 5,607,187 AKiwisoft Programs Limited · 1997