ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,796, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Cradle apparatus and printing device interface" was invented by Roy P. Lyman (Coventry, R.I.), Zhong Gui Wang (Guangzhou, China), David F. Beck (Exeter, R.I.) and Anthony R. Helberg (Attleboro, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of a cradle has a cradle body configured to support a printing device. The cradle has first and second printer capture flanges extending from the cradle body proximate a capture end of the cradle body. The cradle has first and second biased latches extending from the cradle body between the capture end an...