ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,818, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Linx Printing Technologies Ltd. (St Ives, Great Britain).
"Continuous inkjet printer" was invented by Simon Peter Jason Newell (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Stephen Eric Baldwin (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous inkjet printer is provided comprising an ink supply system, a droplet generator configured to receive ink from the ink supply system and to produce a jet of ink for printing, a gutter configured to receive parts of the jet that are not required for printing, a gutter line connected to the gutter and configured to return unprinted ink to the i...