ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,811, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Xaar Technology Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Methods and apparatus for droplet deposition" was invented by Renzo Trip (Huntingdon, Great Britain), Nicholas Marc Jackson (Huntingdon, Great Britain) and Wolfgang Voit (Huntingdon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for depositing fluid droplets onto a medium. For an actuation cycle, the steps include: assigning all fluid chambers in an array as either firing or non-firing chambers to produce bands of one or more contiguous firing chambers separated by bands of one or more contiguous non-firing chambers. For each non-firing chamber adjac...