ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,160, issued on June 10, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Laser driving mode for aiming system of barcode imager" was invented by Vladimir Gurevich (Great Neck, N.Y.), David Tsi Shi (Setauket, N.Y.), Jason S. Mak (Commack, N.Y.), Thomas Lackemann (Sayville, N.Y.) and Matthew D. Blasczak (Shirley, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and systems for driving an aiming assembly of a barcode imager are provided. An example method includes obtaining an operating mode of the barcode imager having an aiming assembly and, in response, determining a duty cycle of an aiming pulse of the aiming assembly. That...