ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,929, issued on July 8, was assigned to CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Method for controlling a digital inkjet printer" was invented by Koen J. Klein Koerkamp (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for printing a digital image in swaths with a swath time corresponding to the width of the digital image on the image receiving medium in the main scanning direction, the print controller issues a trigger that a spitting action for at least part of the printing elements of the print head needs to be performed. A swath time of subsequent swaths is gradually increased until the print head ...