US Patent Issued to Xerox on Feb. 17 for "Inkjet printer with image dryer for improving ink image quality in an aqueous inkjet printer" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,181, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Inkjet printer with image dryer for improving ink image quality in an aqueous inkjet printer" was invented by Douglas K. Herrmann (Webster, N.Y.), Seemit Praharaj (Webster, N.Y.), Jason M. LeFevre (Penfield, N.Y.), Varun S. Sambhy (Pittsford, N.Y.), Palghat Ramesh (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Anthony S. Condello (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printer has an image dryer that moves printed media sheets vertically through the dryer from an entrance to the image dryer to an exit from the image dryer that is higher than the entrance. The vertical conf...