US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Charging cradle, hand-held indicia reader, and assembly of same" (New York, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,830, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Charging cradle, hand-held indicia reader, and assembly of same" was invented by Steven D. Sieckowski (Port Jefferson, N.Y.), Brian M. Walters (Nesconset, N.Y.) and Yuri Astvatsaturov (Lake Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example assembly includes a hand-held indicia reader having a housing that defines a handle and a charging cradle having a passageway formed through a housing of the charging cradle and configured to receive the handle of the hand-held indicia reader within the passageway. The passageway extends through a top surface...