ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,671, issued on April 1, was assigned to BOBST FIRENZE S.R.L (Campi Bisenzio, Italy).
"Linear ink dispensing system" was invented by Federico D'Annunzio (Florence, Italy) and Antonio Bellosi (Florence, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention discloses an ink dispensing system for a printer using the nip area between the inking cylinder and the gravure/anilox cylinder as the sole source of inking. Our solution solves the problem of reducing the amount of ink present in the inking buffer, i.e. the nip area, of such printing machines, thereby accelerating the reaction time of an ink replacement and reducing the amount of wast...