US Patent Issued to Canon on April 22 for "Systems, devices, and methods for generating drop patterns" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,252, issued on April 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Systems, devices, and methods for generating drop patterns" was invented by Ahmed M. Hussein (Austin, Texas) and Andrew Robert Eckert (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some devices, systems, and methods calculate a transition region periodicity as a least a common multiple of a first periodicity of a first uniform-feature segment and a second periodicity of a second uniform-feature segment; determine a plurality of periodic elements of the transition region based on the transition region periodicity; determine a number of drops for each periodic element of...