ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,841, issued on April 15, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Indicia readers with internal displays" was invented by Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.), Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.), Mark Drzymala (Saint James, N.Y.) and Matthew Lawrence Horner (Sound Beach, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Indicia readers with internal displays are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, an indicia reader includes a housing having a lower portion and an upper portion, the lower portion having a first window positioned in a generally horizontal plane, the top portion having a second window positioned in a gene...