ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,235, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Auto calibration procedure for external lights attached to machine vision system operating on power over Ethernet" was invented by Christopher P. Klicpera (Westbury, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for automatically calibrating external illumination sources are disclosed herein. An example method includes supplying power over Ethernet (PoE) to an imaging assembly. The example method may further include identifying a characteristic corresponding to an external illumination source connected to the imaging assembly. The exampl...