US Patent Issued to Ricoh on May 26 for "Print artifact compensation mechanism" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,895, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Print artifact compensation mechanism" was invented by Mikel Stanich (Boulder, Colo.) and Walter F. Kailey (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store compensation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the compensation logic to generate first and second sets of transfer functions to compensate for a gap region, wherein each set of transfer functions is generated for a corresponding group of overlapping pel forming elements b...