US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on April 29 for "Spitting operations for printheads" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,948, issued on April 29, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Spitting operations for printheads" was invented by Wei Lit Teoh (Singapore), Kian Yaw Goh (Singapore), Narayanasamy Periyasamy (Singapore) and Ban Ho Chong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a controller can include a processing resource and a memory resource storing instructions to cause the processing resource to determine a reservoir for a spitting operation of a printhead in an imaging device based on predetermined reservoir data, determine a spit type for the spitting operation of the printhead, and cause the sp...