ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,836, issued on March 25, was assigned to DOVER EUROPE SARL (Vernier, Switzerland).

"Method for printing a plurality of drops at high speed" was invented by Jean-Marie Rolland (Romans, France), Benedicte Bertolami (Saint Marcel les Valence, France) and Gabriel Leopold (Malissard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming at least one plurality of printed dots on a surface, with help of at least one plurality of drops generated by a printhead of a continuous inkjet printer. The method comprises, for each plurality of printed dots: deciding, whether all drops of the at least one plurality of drops are protected from pe...