US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Nov. 18 for "Output roller alterations based on drying times" (Singaporean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,754, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Output roller alterations based on drying times" was invented by Wei Lit Teoh (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, the disclosure describes a printing device that includes a processor resource, and a non-transitory memory resource storing machine-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processor resource to: estimate a drying time of a print medium received at an output roller from a print zone, activate the output roller at a first speed to move the print medium to an output tray in response...