US Patent Issued to Hand Held Products on July 21 for "Scanning apparatus and modular power source" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,383, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Scanning apparatus and modular power source" was invented by Stephen Colavito (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Michael Vincent Miraglia (Hamilton, N.J.), Christopher Allen (East Windsor, N.J.), Qinrong Zhu (Shanghai), HongJian Jin (Suzhou, China), Jerry Qian (Tongzhou, China), Zhongqi Liu (Suzhou, China), Oliver Ou (Suzhou, China) and David Wilz (Sewell, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning apparatus comprising a control system configured to determine a type of a removable power source connected to the scanning apparatus, select one or more charging pa...