US Patent Issued to ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 2 for "Ribbon for use in producing printer activatable indicators" (New Jersey, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,690, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Ribbon for use in producing printer activatable indicators" was invented by Eric W. Liberato (Pequannock, N.J.), John Olson (Dayton, N.J.), James J. O'Hagan (McHenry, Ill.), Mohannad Abdo (Clifton, N.J.) and Gene A. Hofer (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a thermal transfer ribbon for use with a media processing device. The thermal transfer ribbon includes a carrier layer and a transfer layer operatively coupled to the carrier layer. The transfer layer includes an environmental indicator material encapsulated in a plural...