ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,790, issued on July 29, was assigned to Kateeva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Ejection control using substrate alignment features and print region alignment features" was invented by Christopher R. Hauf (Belmont, Calif.), Eli Vronsky (Los Altos, Calif.) and Alexander Sou-Kang Ko (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a printing method, at least one image of a substrate supported in a printing system is acquired. An actual position of a first alignment feature on the substrate in a frame of reference of the printing system is determined based on the at least one image. Expected positions of second alignment features on the s...