ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,597, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for automatic switching of object detection modes" was invented by Benjamin Hejl (Charlotte, N.C.), David M Wilz Sr. (Charlotte, N.C.), Erik Van Horn (Charlotte, N.C.), Abhishek Dipakkumar Golwala (Charlotte, N.C.) and Thomas M. Haggerty (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer products for automatic switching of object detection modes are provided, including for switching of object detection modes of an indicia reader. For example, an ind...