US Patent Issued to Datalogic IP Tech on July 14 for "Fixed retail scanner with multi-port network switch and related methods of managing access to network devices" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,192, issued on July 14, was assigned to Datalogic IP Tech S.r.l. (Calderara di Reno, Italy).

"Fixed retail scanner with multi-port network switch and related methods of managing access to network devices" was invented by Brett Howard (Eugene, Ore.) and Kyle Frischman (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes a fixed retail scanner including a data reader having a multi-port network switch disposed within a housing of the data reader. The multi-port network switch is configured to be configurable to provide security features to the network, including method for locking ports of the switch to specific scanner...