ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,820, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ripples Ltd. (Petah Tikva, Israel).

"System, a vertical axis mechanism and a production method" was invented by Ori Jacobi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Avner Sadot (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ophir Fuchs (Ness Ziona, Israel), Eyal Eliav (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Mor Michael Brot (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a tray (44), a printing assembly (22), an axis mechanism (10), a coupling mechanism (88) and a cover (54). Tray (44) configured for placing thereon a sample (70) including a first flowable-matter substrate (FMS) (69). Printing assembly (22) configured to print an image of ...