ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,119, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hand Held Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Removably couplable printer and verifier assembly" was invented by Chin Young Wong (Singapore), Thomas Axel Jonas Celinder (Singapore) and Sebastien Michel Marie Joseph D'Armancourt (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A verifier and printer assembly are provided. The verifier and printer assembly include a verifier module and a printer. The verifier has a magnetic docking element and the printer includes a docking portion operable to dock the verifier module. The magnetic docking element and the docking portion interact with each other to removabl...