ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,460, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Method to limit range of a barcode scanner" was invented by Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.), Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.) and David P. Goren (Smithtown, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging devices, systems, and methods for determining whether an object is within range to be decoded based on a sharpness of the object in a captured image are described herein. An example device includes: an imaging assembly; and a computer-readable media storing machine readable instructions that, when executed, cause the imaging device to: ...