US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on March 18 for "Resetting printing device consumable item remaining life" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,819, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Resetting printing device consumable item remaining life" was invented by Paul L. Jeran (Boise, Idaho), Gabriel Scott McDaniel (Boise, Idaho), Jeffrey H. Luke (Boise, Idaho) and Benjamin D. Nielsen (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device determines that a consumable item newly installed within a printing device has previously been used, based on a remaining life of the consumable item. In response to determining that the consumable item has previously been used, the printing device resets the remaining life of the con...