ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,227, issued on June 30, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Methods and devices for an electrically efficient green laser diode drive system with boost servo" was invented by Matthew D. Blasczak (Shirley, N.Y.), James R. Giebel (Centerport, N.Y.), Mark Weitzner (Plainview, N.Y.) and Gary G. Schneider (Stony Brook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for driving a laser diode are disclosed herein. An example method includes a boost regulator outputting a maximum boost voltage to drive a laser diode that is configured to output light within a wavelength range of 495 nanometers (nm) to 570...