ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,811, issued on June 3, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Bioptic barcode reader" was invented by Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.), Mark Dryzmala (Saint James, N.Y.) and Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example bioptic barcode reader includes an imaging assembly, first illumination assembly, and second illumination assembly. No more than 10% of a light source of the second illumination assembly is visible within a boundary of a first imaging FOV of the imaging assembly. No more than 10% of a first mirror is visible within a boundary of a second imaging FOV of t...