ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,239, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sanford LP (Atlanta).
"Print consumable detection" was invented by Annemie Lauwers (Hemiksem, Belgium), Hendrik Cannoodt (Lochristi, Belgium), Geert Van Aerde (Lokeren, Belgium), Dirk Van Britsom (Temse, Belgium) and Peter D'Hoye (Ghent, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print consumable may include a rotatable core, a roll of dispensable print substrate, and a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. The roll of the dispensable print substrate may be dispensably secured to the core. The RFID tag may be secured to the core and configured to rotate about a core axis. The RFID tag includ...