US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on June 3 for "Methods and systems for light based accidental scan avoidance" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,812, issued on June 3, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for light based accidental scan avoidance" was invented by Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.) and Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for avoidance of unintended indicia scanning are disclosed herein. An example method may comprise: (1) illuminating, via a first illumination assembly, a predefined region; (2) illuminating, via a second illumination assembly, outside the predefined region, (3) capturing, via an imaging assembly, image data taken over a field of view (FOV), ...