ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,768, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Media processing device configured to reduce media waste" was invented by Blake E. Nemura (Saint Charles, Ill.), Christopher Ensign (Volo, Ill.) and Richard E. Bergstrom (Lake Villa, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a media processing device, including a printing assembly located downstream of a media supply. The media supply includes media elements. The media processing device further includes a memory configured to store media profiles and an edge detection sensor configured to detect edges of the media elements. The edge detection...