ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,842, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Printing systems" was invented by Aviv Yehezkel Hassidov Pleser (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Borja Navas-Sanchez (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Ramon Viedma Ponce (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Anna Margareta Hjort (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-propelled printer is provided having communication circuitry to receive print data for an image to be formed. A drive mechanism of the printer to provides locomotion of the entire self-propelled printer and a print head is arranged to transfer a print m...