US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on March 3 for "Electrohydrodynamic printer with fluidic extractor" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,041, issued on March 3, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Electrohydrodynamic printer with fluidic extractor" was invented by Lai Yu Leo Tse (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ethan McMillian (Grand Haven, Mich.) and Kira Barton (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrohydrodynamic printer has a fluidic extractor. A stream of liquid or carrier fluid at a different electrical potential than the printing fluid passes by an extraction opening to extract printing fluid from the extraction opening. The stream of liquid can be a continuous stream, a uniform stream of droplets, or a non-unifor...