For as long as he could remember, Edward L. Kaplan loved to build things. “He was always tinkering, always playing, always creating,” said Carol Kaplan, his wife of 60 years. “He was an engineer at ...

Ed Kaplan had a knack for building things, including companies. One of Chicago’s earliest and most successful technology entrepreneurs, Kaplan co-founded Zebra Technologies and pushed his alma maters, ...

Zebra Technologies has added more heft to its RFID patent pool. The Vernon Hills, Ill., company announced earlier this week that it purchased a portfolio of U.S. and international patents from BTG.