US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 4 for "Systems, devices, and methods for dispensing drops of fluid according to drop patterns" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,255, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Systems, devices, and methods for dispensing drops of fluid according to drop patterns" was invented by Brent Andrew Snyder (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some devices, systems, and methods specify nozzles of a fluid dispenser that are usable to eject fluid and nozzles of the fluid dispenser that are not usable to eject fluid; specify contiguous nozzle groups of the nozzles that are usable to eject fluid; specify a coverage height of a largest contiguous nozzle group of the contiguous nozzle groups; determine, for one or more pass combinations, a respective com...