ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,377, issued on March 18, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Imaging device with improved lamp mode" was invented by Christopher P. Klicpera (Westbury, N.Y.), Jason Y. Potter (New York) and Mathew G. Locoteta (Shoreham, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing an improved lamp mode for an imaging device. The imaging device may include an image sensor; an illumination source; and a processing assembly communicatively coupled to the image sensor and the illumination source, and the processing assembly may be configured to: responsive to a scanning event trigger, cause the imagin...