ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,842, issued on March 11, was assigned to RGIS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Ring scanner with counting function and method thereof" was invented by Asaf Cohen (Ramat Gan, Israel), Sudipto Nandy (Charlotte, N.C.), Ruth Percik (Ramat Gan, Israel), David Kagan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Patrick Marcel Gilbert Andre Chossat (Chatillon, France), Mathieu Jean-Marie Durieux (Helecine, Belgium), Nicola Jane Stevens (Derby, Great Britain), John Frazer Cundall (Sheffield, Great Britain) and Jerome Thur (Les Pinthieres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanner device has count buttons. A user can count the number of invent...