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Article: Kentucky Inventors Develop Print Media Handling System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- August 29, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Raymond Michael Marowski, David John Mickan and Mark Stephen Underwood, all from Lexington, Ky., have developed methods for handling defective radio frequency identification (RFID) media.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device such as a laser printer includes a radio frequency (RF) controller which permits the detection and redirection of media having one or more defective RF device tags, such as an RFID tag, to a specific one of two or more output options."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The RF controller may include RF control logic that communicates with the base printer and the output ...