US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on April 14 for "Determining new remaining usage of cartridge" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,142, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Determining new remaining usage of cartridge" was invented by Paul L. Jeran (Boise, Idaho) and Alex Oaks (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example printing material cartridge may include an input/output device, a container storing printing material, and a memory. The memory may store an identifier of the cartridge, a usage counter of the cartridge, and an indicator that the cartridge has reached a usage threshold. The memory may also store a usage offset equal to a historical usage of the cartridge, the usage offset for determ...