ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,781, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Power manager to support less-than-nominal conditions in a machine vision system" was invented by Christopher P. Klicpera (Westbury, N.Y.), Nina Feinstein (Hicksville, N.Y.), Matthew Lawrence Horner (Sound Beach, N.Y.), Thomas Fitzgerald (Coventry, Conn.) and John P. Evans (Levittown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for managing power within an imaging device includes: determining an interface of the imaging device via which the imaging device is receiving power; based on the interface, determining a power budget associated w...