ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,504, issued on July 7, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Monitoring printing fluid" was invented by Cesar Luis Coelho Morais De Serpa Rosa (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Marc Clotet Marti (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Alberto Borrego Lebrato (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure refers to monitoring a printing fluid, in an example, a device is disclosed wherein the device N comprises a light emitter to illuminate a fluid line comprising a flowing printing fluid; an image sensor to capture a diagnostic image of the fluid line once it has been ill...