26 patents
Utility
Beacon-Activated Automatic Generation of Scan Targets and Scan Responses
18 May 23
In contexts such as in-store customer transactions, a first party operates a terminal comprising a Beacon, an NFC-Engine, and optionally an Optical Scan Engine.
Vincent J. COLI, Leonard OTT
Filed: 20 Oct 22
Utility
Assisted Aimer for Optimized Symbol Scanning by a Portable Computing Device Having an Integral Camera
13 Apr 23
An assisted aimer for rapid, accurate, and low-cost imaging of barcodes, includes a hand-held device, such as a smart phone or tablet, having a digital camera with built-in flash, a specialized software application executing on the phone, and an aimer apparatus attached in front of the flash aperture for forming an aimer beam at a predetermined distance.
Micheal L. Gifford
Filed: 6 May 22
Utility
Polymorphic profiles
6 Dec 22
A peripheral device at startup selectively activates one of a plurality of connection profiles for low-energy communication with a central device.
Gerald Roy Herbel, Leonard Ott, Vincent J. Coli
Filed: 21 Apr 21
Utility
Application-assisted friendly pairing
29 Nov 22
Application-assisted friendly pairing provides a classic-energy radio technology user interface experience to a user operating a peripheral device in conjunction with a central device.
Eric Florent Glaenzer, Vincent J. Coli
Filed: 22 Oct 20
Design
Cordless hand scanner
5 Jul 22
Puay Hian Goh, James William Rebello, Vanessa Esther Lindsay, Kevin J. Mills
Filed: 14 Jan 21
Utility
Accuracy-enhanced scanner
4 Jan 22
According to a technique of accuracy-enhanced scanning, a scan target is illuminated responsive to recognizing an aiming initiation action.
Timothy Miller, Bobby Dale Gifford, Leonard Ott, John E. Brandon
Filed: 1 Jun 20
Utility
Assisted Aimer for Optimized Symbol Scanning by a Portable Computing Device Having an Integral Camera
30 Dec 21
An assisted aimer for rapid, accurate, and low-cost imaging of barcodes, includes a hand-held device, such as a smart phone or tablet, having a digital camera with built-in flash, a specialized software application executing on the phone, and an aimer apparatus attached in front of the flash aperture for forming an aimer beam at a predetermined distance.
Micheal L. Gifford
Filed: 31 Dec 20
Utility
Multi-mode NFC/RFID scanning
5 Oct 21
During hand-held operation, configuration of an NFC/RFID Reader/Writer peripheral device in a predefined mode named “Mobile Mode with Auto-Collection”, enables recognition of a long duration (e.g. 5 second) trigger press (AKA a “Long Press”) as an enabling event prompting a change of scan behavior between single-shot scan operation and continuous scan operation.
Ivan G. Stoilov, Vincent J. Coli, Steven Glyn Jones
Filed: 20 Apr 20
Utility
Host feedback of scan status
5 Oct 21
A multi-mode ring scanner (MMRS) has a ring unit for wearing on a finger.
Robert John Miller, Allan Leafblad, Thomas J. Newman, Leonard Ott, John E. Brandon, Charles E. Ader, Timothy Miller
Filed: 24 Jan 20
Utility
Application-assisted Friendly Pairing
9 Sep 21
Application-assisted friendly pairing provides a classic-energy radio technology user interface experience to a user operating a peripheral device in conjunction with a central device.
Eric Florent GLAENZER, Vincent J. COLI
Filed: 22 Oct 20
Design
Cordless peripheral for wireless data exchange
15 Jun 21
Kevin J. Mills, Cj Silver, Vincent J. Coli, James William Rebello, Edward Raphael Toro
Filed: 29 Sep 19
Utility
Polymorphic profiles
27 Apr 21
A peripheral device at startup selectively activates one of a plurality of connection profiles for low-energy communication with a central device.
Gerald Roy Herbel, Leonard Ott, Vincent J. Coli
Filed: 31 Aug 18
Utility
Multi-mode NFC/RFID Scanning
4 Mar 21
During hand-held operation, configuration of an NFC/RFID Reader/Writer peripheral device in a predefined mode named “Mobile Mode with Auto-Collection”, enables recognition of a long duration (e.g. 5 second) trigger press (AKA a “Long Press”) as an enabling event prompting a change of scan behavior between single-shot scan operation and continuous scan operation.
Ivan G. STOILOV, Vincent J. COLI, Steven Glyn JONES
Filed: 20 Apr 20
Utility
Aimer beam formation facilitating rapid barcode processing by a user with a standard smart phone
2 Feb 21
An assisted aimer for rapid, accurate, and low-cost imaging of barcodes, includes a hand-held device, such as a smart phone or tablet, having a digital camera with built-in flash, a specialized software application executing on the phone, and an aimer apparatus attached in front of the flash aperture for forming an aimer beam at a predetermined distance.
Micheal L. Gifford
Filed: 21 Apr 16
Utility
Host Feedback of Scan Status
23 Dec 20
A multi-mode ring scanner (MMRS) has a ring unit for wearing on a finger.
Robert John MILLER, Allan LEAFBLAD, Thomas J. NEWMAN, Leonard OTT, John E. BRANDON, Charles E. ADER, Timothy MILLER
Filed: 23 Jan 20
Utility
Application-assisted friendly pairing
26 Oct 20
Application-assisted friendly pairing provides a classic-energy radio technology user interface experience to a user operating a peripheral device in conjunction with a central device.
Eric Florent Glaenzer, Vincent J. Coli
Filed: 29 Aug 18
Design
Electronic device stand
7 Sep 20
Po-Wen Yang, Edward R. Toro, Vanessa Esther Lindsay, Leonard Ott, James William Rebello
Filed: 11 Jan 18
Utility
Assisted aimer for optimized symbol scanning by a portable computing device having an integral camera
20 Jul 20
An assisted aimer for rapid, accurate, and low-cost imaging of barcodes, includes a hand-held device, such as a smart phone or tablet, having a digital camera with built-in flash, a specialized software application executing on the phone, and an aimer apparatus attached in front of the flash aperture for forming an aimer beam at a predetermined distance.
Micheal L. Gifford
Filed: 23 Sep 19
Utility
Accuracy-enhanced scanner
1 Jun 20
An accuracy-enhanced scanner provides (in response to a first user input) illumination of potential scan targets and scans (in response to a second user input) a selected scan target.
Timothy Miller, Bobby Dale Gifford, Leonard Ott, John E. Brandon
Filed: 9 Dec 18
Design
Cordless hand scanner
18 May 20
Cj Silver, Puay Hian Goh, James William Rebello, Vanessa Esther Lindsay, James Lopez, Leonard Ott, Kevin J. Mills, Debasish Bhattacharya
Filed: 5 Jan 19