US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on April 22 for "Printhead cleaning devices with cleaning agent fountains" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,598, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Printhead cleaning devices with cleaning agent fountains" was invented by Chris Paul Schodin (San Diego) and Krzysztof Nauka (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a printhead cleaning device is described. The printhead cleaning device includes a first spout to generate a first cleaning agent fountain to bathe a printhead die as it traverses over the printhead cleaning device. A pump passes the cleaning agent through the first spout to generate the first cleaning agent fount...