ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,209, issued on July 21, was assigned to Memjet Technology Ltd. (Dublin).
"Full color inkjet printhead for redundant printing" was invented by Jason Thelander (North Ryde, Australia), David Burke (North Ryde, Australia) and Andrew Thomas (North Ryde, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printhead for printing redundantly in four colors. The printhead includes: an ink manifold having first, second, third and fourth ink reservoirs for supplying first, second, third and fourth inks, respectively; and first and second parallel printhead chips mounted on the ink manifold. The ink manifold has ink feed slots configured for sup...