ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,899, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for mitigating specular reflection" was invented by Maulin Sheth (Central Islip, N.Y.) and Tholkappiyan Agaram-Raghupathy (Holtsville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for mitigating specular reflection are described herein. An example system performs a ranging operation via an imaging assembly. Based upon the ranging operation, the system determines a range value associated with a distance between the imaging assembly and an object in the field of view. The system compares the range value to a ...