US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on July 15 for "Scan engine ranging failure handling" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,241, issued on July 15, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Scan engine ranging failure handling" was invented by Carl D. Wittenberg (Water Mill, N.Y.) and Maulin Sheth (Central Islip, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is an imaging system for use in a variable focus indicia reader having a controller configured to activate and deactivate a light source, an imaging assembly configured to capture imaging data of an environment appearing within a field of view of the imaging assembly, and a focus module configured to set a focus characteristic of the imaging assembly. The focus module may se...