ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,145, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Fluid-ejection device air purger detection" was invented by Kok Leong Law (Singapore), Hong Hor Teh (Singapore) and Kok Heng Ng (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a fluid-ejection device can include a fluidic tube to fluidically connect to a fluid supply, a carriage having a fluidic interconnector fluidically connectable to the fluidic tube and movable between a first position and a second position, a receiver to receive an air purger, wherein the air purger, when present, is coupled to the receiver and fluidically ...