ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,862, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods to identify barcodes of interest using a non-internet connected barcode scanner" was invented by Matthew Lawrence Horner (Sound Beach, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying specific GS1 Digital Link barcodes using non-internet-connected barcode readers. The system includes a server executing a device-management application and a barcode reader with local processor and memory. The barcode reader stores payloads of interest from the server and scans GS1 Digital Link barcodes to decode their paylo...