ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,154, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).
"Inkjet printhead protection apparatus" was invented by David B. Ferguson (Boca Raton, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of a protector apparatus for protecting a printhead having a nozzle plate include a protection layer, a spacer layer, a flexible magnetic layer having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, and a handle connected to one end of the flexible magnetic layer. The spacer layer is sandwiched between the protection layer and the first surface of the flexible magnetic layer. The handle is connected to th...