ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,078, issued on May 13, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Gateway scanner" was invented by Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.), Mark Drzymala (Saint James, N.Y.) and Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaged-based scanner includes a housing having a lower portion, an upper portion, and an extension arm extending upward from the lower portion to the upper portion. A lower portion includes a base having an exit window and an imaging assembly mounted in that base with at least one field of view directed upwardly through the exit window. The upper portion has imaging a...