ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,093, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Barcode with built-in chemical indicators" was invented by Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.), Mohannad Abdo (Clifton, N.J.), Mark Drzymala (Saint James, N.Y.) and Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging devices, systems, and methods for determining parameters of an object based on chemical indicators detected during a decode event are described herein. An example device includes: a housing; one or more processors; an imaging assembly at least partially disposed within the housing, the imaging assembly inc...