ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,286, issued on July 15, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).

"Calibration to compensate for print bar skew angle" was invented by Utpal Kumar Sarkar (Barcelona, Spain), Carles Carmona Calpe (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain) and David Vendrell Tornero (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pagewide array (PWA) print bar of a printing device prints a calibration pattern on a print medium. The print bar is nominally perpendicular to a media advancement direction in which the print medium advances relative to the PWA print bar during printing. An image of the printed calibration pat...