ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,304, issued on June 2, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"System and method for selecting a dimensioning function and dimensioning an object" was invented by Patrick B. Tilley (Coram, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example dimensioning device includes: a sensor to capture data representing an object; a memory configured to store: a first dimensioning function and criteria associated with the first dimensioning function; and a default dimensioning function; and a processor interconnected with the sensor and the memory, the processor configured to: in response to a dimensioning request to dimension t...