US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Media processing device and associated components for spool type detection and/or status" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,725, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Media processing device and associated components for spool type detection and/or status" was invented by Zi Yang (Guangzhou, China), Yong Liu (Guangzhou, China), Zhong Gui Wang (Guangzhou, China) and Yunbo Yuan (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media processing device includes a spindle, a sensor, and a logic circuit. The spindle is configured to support a spool of installed consumable media selected from a plurality of different possible types of consumable media. The spindle includes an encoder wheel having a plurality of encoder...