ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,918, issued on March 18, was assigned to Agfa NV (Mortsel, Belgium).
"Method of manufacturing decorative panels" was invented by Jurgen Van Dorpe (Mortsel, Belgium), Patrick Van Mooter (Mortsel, Belgium), Paul Wouters (Mortsel, Belgium) and Christof Baks (Mortsel, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Manufacturing decorative panels by using a web-fed inkjet printer. During the feeding of the to-be-printed substrate, the tension of the substrate is controlled by a dancer unit (720) which includes a dancer roll (200), having a connector (120) on both side ends of said roll, and wherein both connectors (120) are connected to a pair o...