ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,124, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Videojet Technologies Inc. (Wood Dale, Ill.).

"System and method for marking substrates within improved line recovery time" was invented by Robert Weaver (Wood Dale, Ill.), John Folkers (Palatine, Ill.), Fred Susi (Wood Dale, Ill.) and Robert Smith (Thrapston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes operating a marking and coding device, classifying, by a classifying module, a fault condition based on one or more of received sensor data, printer self-test data, current operational data and historical device condition data; and determining autonomously a repair process rec...