US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING on July 1 for "Step compensating carriage printer" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,009, issued on July 1, was assigned to ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING INC. (Londonderry, N.H.).

"Step compensating carriage printer" was invented by Peter Heath (Alexandria, N.H.) and Paul Duncanson (Franklin, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a technique that enables a carriage printer to reduce precision in a media conveyor by improving mobility of the carriage. The carriage includes a mobile jetplate that adjusts the position of the printheads within the carriage. The mobile jetplate includes multiple motors that enable shifts in an axis matching the axis of the media. Operating the motors of the jetplate at differen...