US Patent Issued to Iconex on March 3 for "Direct thermal and thermal transfer label combination" (Nebraska, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,055, issued on March 3, was assigned to Iconex LLC (Atlanta).

"Direct thermal and thermal transfer label combination" was invented by Roger Francoeur (Bennington, Neb.) and Timothy Darren Livingston (Corryton, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct thermal and thermal transfer label combination is provided. The label includes a substrate, and the substrate includes a thermal print coating applied to a front side of the substrate. The label also includes a liner attached to a backside of the substrate along a first side of the liner. Further, an aqueous resin-based thermal transfer coating is applied to a second side of the lin...