ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,418, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Activatable print medium" was invented by Michael S. Millman (Camas, Wash.), Mohannad Abdo (Clifton, N.J.), Marielle K. Smith (Parlin, N.J.), John Olson (Dayton, N.J.) and Eric W. Liberato (Pequannock, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An activatable print medium is disclosed. The print medium includes a first reactive component, a second reactive component, wherein the first and second reactive components are configured to react to initiate a state change of the activatable print medium when exposed to each other and a barrier that is initial...