ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,016, issued on May 6, was assigned to HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP (Spring, Texas).
"Web shift compensation" was invented by Ronald R. Anderson (Corvallis, Ore.) and Joseph Santich (Corvallis, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, an apparatus may include a first feed element and a second feed element, in which a web is to be fed to the first feed element and from the first feed element to the second feed element. The apparatus may also include a controller that may determine whether the web exiting the second feed element is shifted from an intended position and based on a determination that the web is...