ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,189, issued on July 22, was assigned to Agfa NV (Mortsel, Belgium).

"Inkjet printing method" was invented by Paul Wouters (Mortsel, Belgium) and Martin De Kegelaer (Mortsel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printing method on a continuous substrate web (100), having a pair of edges (1011, 1021), comprising the steps: a) forming a pair of elongated strips (101, 102) by bending said substrate web 1021 (100) along a pair of lines (1010, 1020) wherein each line is parallel to the pair of edges (1011, 1021); and b) supporting said bent substrate web 1011 201 in a support zone (201) of a printer (200) wherein said pair of e...