US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Sept. 2 for "Print component with memory array using intermittent clock signal" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,689, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Print component with memory array using intermittent clock signal" was invented by James Michael Gardner (Corvallis, Ore.), Scott A. Linn (Corvallis, Ore.) and Michael W. Cumbie (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print component includes a plurality of data pads, a clock pad to receive an intermittent clock signal, and a plurality of actuator groups each corresponding to a different liquid type and to a different one of the data pads. Each actuator group includes a plurality of configuration functions, an array of fluid actuato...