US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING on May 27 for "Modifying image data to compensate for defective printer nozzles" (New Hampshire Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,680, issued on May 27, was assigned to ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING INC. (Londonderry, N.H.).

"Modifying image data to compensate for defective printer nozzles" was invented by Steven Billow (Bow, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments include a method to compensate for defective printer nozzles. The method can include detecting a defective printer nozzle and initiating a print job including image data of the defective printer nozzle for a pixel location of an image. The image is to be printed in accordance with a print mask that maps printer nozzles to pixel locations of the image. The method can include modifying ...