US Patent Issued to Xerox on Sept. 1 for "Method and system for detecting and classifying air pockets within ink supply lines" (New York, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,394, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Method and system for detecting and classifying air pockets within ink supply lines" was invented by Jorge Alvarez (Webster, N.Y.), Jason M. LeFevre (Penfield, N.Y.), Seemit Praharaj (Marlborough, N.H.), Varun Sambhy (Pittsford, N.Y.), Anthony Condello (Webster, N.Y.), Christine A Steurrys (Williamson, N.Y.), Douglas K. Herrmann (Webster, N.Y.), Peter Gulvin (Webster, N.Y.) and Mark Petropoulos (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print device that includes an ink line and an imaging device is configured to capture images of at least a portion of the in...