ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,597, issued on April 22, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).
"Print head maintenance assembly" was invented by Jeffrey L. Thielman (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Alejandro Mielgo Barba (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a print head maintenance cartridge, a printing device and a method of cleaning a print head. The print head maintenance assembly comprises a maintenance cartridge that is movable along a first direction and a wiper assembly comprising a wiper element for wiping a print head. The wiper element extends along the first direction. The mai...