ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,163, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods to optimize imaging settings for a machine vision job" was invented by David D. Landron (Coram, N.Y.), Christopher M. West (South Setauket, N.Y.) and James Matthew Witherspoon (Howell, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for optimizing one or more imaging settings for a machine vision job are disclosed herein. An example method includes detecting, by one or more processors, an initiation trigger that initiates the machine vision job. The example method further includes, responsive to detecting the initiatio...