US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for activating an electronic device via battery displacement" (British, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,726, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for activating an electronic device via battery displacement" was invented by Cameron James Smith (Whitchurch, Great Britain), Edward Anthony Hackett (Surbiton, Great Britain), Chieh Kai Wang (Taichung, Taiwan) and James Roger Morley-Smith (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed that include an electronic device and an activation device. The electronic device includes a battery compartment having a battery storage section and a battery engagement section. The battery engage...