US Patent Issued to CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING on Feb. 24 for "Circuit and method for driving a print head" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,887, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Circuit and method for driving a print head" was invented by Aart Nijkamp (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic circuit for driving an individual print element in a print head is disclosed. The print head comprises an array of print elements, each print element having a piezo-electric actuator that is capable of generating an acoustic wave in an ink chamber of the print element, resulting in the ejection of an ink drop out of a nozzle that is in fluid connection with the ink chamber. The electronic circuit ...