ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,243, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Printing conductive elements" was invented by Sterling Chaffins (Corvallis, Ore.), Thomas A. Saksa (Corvallis, Ore.), Kevin P. Dekam (Corvallis, Ore.), Terry McMahon (Corvallis, Ore.), Donald W. Schulte (Corvallis, Ore.), Jami Ryan Barone (Corvallis, Ore.) and Douglas Pederson (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, an apparatus includes processing circuitry comprising a model assessment module to identify an indication of a conductive element within object model data representing an object to be printed and a print ins...