US Patent Issued to DOVER EUROPE SARL on July 15 for "Cleaning process for the hydraulic circuit of an ink jet printer" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,287, issued on July 15, was assigned to DOVER EUROPE SARL (Vernier, Switzerland).

"Cleaning process for the hydraulic circuit of an ink jet printer" was invented by Francis Pourtier (Charmes sur Rhone, France), Bruno Barbet (Etoile sur Rhone, France), Raphael Savoldi (Portes-les Valence, France) and Rudy Joly (La Rochede Glun, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning process for cleaning at least one part of a hydraulic circuit of a continuous inkjet printer. The hydraulic circuit includes a solvent tank and an ink tank, and hydraulic connections for sending ink and/or solvent to a print head. The cleaning process includes: a...