US Patent Issued on May 6 for "Method and system for controlling drop collisions in a drop on demand printing apparatus" (Polish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,026, issued on May 6.

"Method and system for controlling drop collisions in a drop on demand printing apparatus" was invented by Piotr Jeute (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling drop collisions in a drop on demand printing apparatus, comprising discharging a first drop (101) from a first dispenser (111) to move along a first path (103) and discharging a second drop (102) from a second dispenser (112) to move along a second path (104) that crosses with the first path such that the drops are expected to collide and form a combined drop (105), characterized by: measuring the collision of the drops (101...