US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Indicia reader and indicia reader system" (New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,169, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Indicia reader and indicia reader system" was invented by Andrew Joseph Zosel (Blaine, Wash.), Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.), Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.), Mark Drzymala (Saint James, N.Y.) and John Britts (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example indicia reader includes a housing configured to be positioned above a product scanning area. The housing has a width, a height, and a width to height ratio equal to or greater than 2:1. A barcode camera is positioned at least partially within the housing an...