ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,696, issued on April 21, was assigned to DATALOGIC IP TECH S.R.L. (Bologna, Italy).
"Heat management system for top-down reader of a fixed retail scanner and related methods" was invented by Joseph Mistkawi (Tigard, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes a fixed retail scanner including a scanner base unit comprising one or more imagers to view a read zone, and a top-down reader having a head and an elongate stand operably coupled to the scanner base unit. The top-down reader includes a printed circuit board including one or more processors and optical components disposed within the head of the top-down reader, ...