ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,281, issued on April 22, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Skew detection" was invented by Martin Urrutia Nebreda (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Marti Rius Rossell (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some examples, a skew detection device comprises a first roller rotatable around a first axis, a second roller rotatable around a second axis, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The first sensor measures a first rotation parameter from the first roller and the second sensor measures a second rotation parameter from the second roller. A movement of a print m...