ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,057, issued on June 30, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Controlling precision systems using free topology waveforms" was invented by Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas), Brent Snyder (Austin, Texas) and Shrawan Singhal (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product and system for precision inkjet printing. A control variable vector of actuation parameters associated with an inkjet waveform is determined. A printhead is then actuated to eject a grid of droplets from an inkjet onto a substrate based on the inkjet waveform. An image of the grid of d...