ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,686, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inkjet printing device and printing method for printing an image on a continuous medium" was invented by Jun Yamanobe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takashi Fukui (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an inkjet printing device and a printing method capable of grasping a position of a non-product image, such as a jetting state monitoring pattern, on a continuous medium. An inkjet printing device includes a medium transport mechanism that transports a continuous medium (12) in a medium transport direction, an inkjet head that prints a user image on the continu...