ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,161, issued on June 10, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for decoding indicia payload within a scan volume" was invented by Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.), Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.) and Mark Drzymala (Saint James, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for adjusting scan volume are provided. An example includes an indicia reading system comprising a two-dimensional (2D) imaging assembly having at least one 2D imaging sensor and operable to capture 2D image data over at least one 2D field of view (FOV); a three-dimensional (3D) imaging assembly h...