US Patent Issued to Hand Held Products on Sept. 15 for "Near co-axial polarized illuminator apparatuses and uses thereof" (New Jersey, North Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,576, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Near co-axial polarized illuminator apparatuses and uses thereof" was invented by Chen Feng (Snohomish, Wash.), Patrick Anthony Giordano (Glassboro, N.J.), Tao Xian (Mount Laurel, N.J.), Eric Alfons Youngblood (Matthews, N.C.) and Paul R. Poloniewicz (Waxhaw, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include near co-axial polarized illuminator apparatuses and uses thereof. The near co-axial polarized illuminator is internally positionable in near co-axial alignment with one or more imager(s) utilized to capture a repr...