ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,444, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"System and method of selective auxiliary data capture" was invented by Abhilash Gururaja (Levittown, N.Y.), Christopher J. Fjellstad (Smithtown, N.Y.) and David R. Turturro (Farmingville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of auxiliary data capture control includes: storing, at a data capture device, a trigger condition; controlling the sensor to obtain captured data; determining, based on the captured data, whether the trigger condition is satisfied, wherein the trigger condition includes whether the captured data exceeds the baseline v...