US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Utilization of a printhead resistance sensor and a model to determine a printer status" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,144, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Utilization of a printhead resistance sensor and a model to determine a printer status" was invented by Ryan E. Brock (Cary, Ill.) and Yan Zhang (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive print data associated with a printer. The device may receive an image that depicts content that is printed on media by the printer. The device may determine, using a printhead analysis model, a status of a printhead of the printer based on the print data and a characteristic of the content, wherein the prin...