US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Feb. 10 for "Printing devices with disengage-able output roller pinch" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,039, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Printing devices with disengage-able output roller pinch" was invented by Keith William Joseph Jariabka (Vancouver, Wash.), Juan David Ramos (Vancouver, Wash.), Peter J. Boucher (Vancouver, Wash.) and Brian Hemmerlin (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example printing device includes a print zone in which printing agent is deposited onto a print media. In addition, the printing device includes a first path extending through the print zone to an output roller pinch, and a second path extending into the printing device from the...