ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,946, issued on April 21, was assigned to Vivid Laminating Technologies Ltd (Ashby de la Zouch, Great Britain).
"Digital flatbed cutters" was invented by Gavin Ward (Ashby de la Zouch, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital flatbed cutter is described. The cutter includes a flatbed on which a printed workpiece can be positioned. A head unit is movable laterally along an x-axis direction and a perpendicular y-axis direction in a parallel plane above the flatbed. The head unit includes a cutter head and a printer head. The printer head includes at least one printhead for overprinting at least part of the printed workpie...