ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,397, issued on March 3, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Electrostatic printing method" was invented by Cornelis Jan Delst (Fairfax, Calif.), Vladimir P. Raksha (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Alberto Argoitia (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Paul Thomas Kohlmann (Windsor, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of printing a toner, including: rotating a cylinder having a printing plate with a fixed pattern; transferring a toner from a vessel onto the fixed pattern of the printing plate, in which the toner includes a pigment with a metallic reflective layer; and transferring the toner onto a substrate; in which the fixed...