ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,539, issued on May 26, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Bioptic barcode readers" was invented by Mark Drzymala (Saint James, N.Y.), Edward Barkan (Miller Place, N.Y.) and Darran Michael Handshaw (Sound Beach, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bioptic barcode reader has a housing having a lower housing portion with an upper surface and an upper housing portion extending above the lower housing portion. A generally horizontal window is positioned at the upper surface, a generally upright window is positioned in the upper housing portion, and an imaging assembly having a primary field-of-view and a set ...