ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,194, issued on May 20, was assigned to HP SCITEX LTD. (Netanya, Israel).

"Print zone driver for a printer conveyor belt" was invented by Alex Veis (Netanya, Israel) and Semion Birger (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to carry print media through a print zone in a printer. In one example, the system includes an endless conveyor belt in a loop, a driver operatively connected to the conveyor belt under the print zone to circulate the conveyor belt through the print zone, an encoder operatively connected to the driver under the print zone to measure movement of the conveyor belt in the print zone indirectly through...