ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,818, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Scan mat" was invented by Mark Drzymala (Saint James, N.Y.), 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: "Imaging devices are provided having a low-profile substrate structure with a mounting surface that can be removably placed on flat work surface. Further, a low-profile frame structure coincides with a peripheral region of that substrate structure and contains a plurality of imagers, at least some of which are on opposing sides of the substrate structure. The opposing imagers a...