ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,058, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for avoidance of unintended indicia scanning" was invented by Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.), Mark Drzymala (Saint James, N.Y.) and Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for avoidance of unintended indicia scanning are disclosed herein. An example system may include an imaging device comprising: (1) one or more image sensors; (2) a processing assembly communicatively coupled to the one or more image sensors and configured to: (i) instruct the one or more image sensors...