US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Machine vision device with switchable direct and diffused illumination" (Illinois, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,946, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Machine vision device with switchable direct and diffused illumination" was invented by Yuri Astvatsaturov (Lake Forest, Ill.) and Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine vision devices and systems with automatically switchable direct and diffused illumination are provided herein. An example includes a machine vision system, comprising an image capture device, a material with switchable optical properties, wherein the material with switchable optical properties has a transparent state and a translucent sta...