ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,592, issued on June 24, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Cutter integrated with tamping mechanism for enhanced linerless processing" was invented by David F Beck (Exeter, R.I.) and Richard J. Preliasco (North Kingstown, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a label application device for applying a label to an object. The label application device comprises a media roll holder configured to secure a media roll, a tamp arm configured to move from a retracted position to an extended position, and a print head located between the media roll holder and the tamp arm. The print head is configured to...