ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,761, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Indicia readers with structure light assemblies" was invented by Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.) and Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various vision devices are disclosed herein. An example vision device is an indicia reader that includes a housing, an imaging assembly having a field of view (FOV) extending into a product-scanning region and configured to capture image data depicting an environment appearing within the FOV, and an illumination assembly configured to emit a structured light into the product...