ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,846, issued on March 11, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Enhancing performance of high resolution vision systems" was invented by Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.) and Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for operating an indicia reader. An example system includes an imaging assembly, at least one processor and memory storing instructions that cause the processor to: capture and store in memory one or more images comprising image data; generate one or more lower resolution images comprising lower resolution image data corresponding to...