ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,845, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HP SCITEX LTD. (Netanya, Israel).
"Print agent drying apparatus" was invented by Alex Veis (Netanya, Israel), Yubai Bi (San Diego), Eyal Kotik (Netanya, Israel) and Amir Hesed (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of drying print agent is disclosed. The method comprises blowing hot air onto an absorbent printable medium that bears water- and/or solvent-based print agent to reduce the viscosity of the print agent and to promote absorption of at least some water and/or solvent in the print agent by the printable medium; and, subsequent to the blowing of hot air, irradiating the...