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Symbol Technologies, Inc., was an American manufacturer and supplier of mobile data capture and delivery equipment. The company specialized in barcode scanners , mobile computers , RFID systems and Wireless LAN infrastructure.
Jerome "Jerry" Swartz (born 1940) is a physicist that developed early optical strategies for barcode scanning technologies in the United States and co-founded the corporation, Symbol Technologies on Long Island, New York, with physicist partner, Dr. Shelley A. Harrison in 1973.
Tomo Razmilovic (born 31 May 1942) is a Croatian-born Swedish businessman, formerly the CEO of Long Island, New York-based Symbol Technologies. He is the suspected mastermind of a massive accounting fraud that ultimately cost the company its independence.
MicroPDF417 barcode was patented in 1996, [1] by Frederick Schuessler, Kevin Hunter, Sundeep Kumar and Cary Chu from Symbol Technologies company. MicroPDF417 is an extension of PDF417 barcode [6] and uses the same principles of data encoding. [2] Before 2006, the standard can be obtained only from AIM store [7] as ITS MicroPDF417 standard. [8]
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Later that year, the company completed the sale of its Enterprise business, comprising rugged mobile computers, tablets, and barcode scanners, to Zebra Technologies for $3.45 billion in cash. [8] As part of the sale, approximately 4,500 Motorola Solutions employees from locations throughout the world were transferred to Zebra. [8]
In 2004, Lemelson's estate was defeated in a notable court case involving Symbol Technologies and Cognex Corporation, which sought (and received) a ruling that 76 claims under Lemelson's machine vision patents were unenforceable. [28] [29] The plaintiff companies, with the support of dozens of industry supporters, spent millions on this case.
PDF417 is a stacked barcode that can be read with a simple linear scan being swept over the symbol. [4] Those linear scans need the left and right columns with the start and stop code words. Additionally, the scan needs to know what row it is scanning, so each row of the symbol must also encode its row number.