ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,187, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Device for controlling a printing temperature of an ink in a print head" was invented by Ender Olgac (Munich) and Matthias Kage (Haar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controlling a printing temperature of an ink in a print head of a system for inkjet printing includes a heat exchanger with a first channel for ink and a second channel for a temperature control fluid; a chiller for heating and/or cooling the temperature control fluid; an ink circuit that is configured to pump ink through the heat exchanger and into ...