US Patent Issued to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT on Dec. 30 for "Thermal treatment unit with spatially varying radiation power" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,823, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Thermal treatment unit with spatially varying radiation power" was invented by Raimon Castells De Monet (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain), Josep Tarradas i Juan (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and Eduard Barba Gomez-Alvarez (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal treatment unit for a printer is mountable on a carriage that moves across a printing medium. The thermal treatment unit comprises an emitter element to emit radiation towards the printing medium to thermally treat the printing medium, wherein the therma...