ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,911, issued on July 29, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Control of a display panel of a barcode reader to indicate a battery level" was invented by Matthew Lawrence Horner (Sound Beach, N.Y.), Pavithra Eswaran (Plainview, N.Y.) and Manjunath Joshi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a data processing device is disclosed. The controller may receive, via a user input, a charge threshold associated with presenting a battery level indicator on the display panel. The controller may monitor, during a charging operation, a state of charge of the battery. The controller may determi...