ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,562, issued on April 14, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Media processing devices with 2-dimensional articulable RF antenna" was invented by Wai Kean Tham (Gopeng, Malaysia) and Yuming Zhang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media processing devices with two-dimensional articulatable RF antennas are disclosed herein. An example media processing device with a two-dimensional articulatable RF antenna includes a media process path having a feed direction; an RF encoder disposed at a point along the media process path, comprising a programming region; an RF antenna configured to program RF tags; a...