ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,591, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Input handling for media processing devices" was invented by Raymond E. Maynard (Westerly, R.I.), Angel B. Rosales (Port Hueneme, Calif.), Steve Ting Kei Chow (Monterey Park, Calif.), Joseph D. Moreira (Barrington, R.I.) and Thomas R. Helma (Wakefield, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media processing device includes: a hopper for supporting a stack of media units (e.g. cards), the hopper including (i) a gate wall configured to abut leading edges of the media units and (ii) an outlet defined at an end of the gate wall; a pick roller at the ou...