US Patent Issued to Kateeva on March 18 for "Nozzle-droplet combination techniques to deposit fluids in substrate locations within precise tolerances" (California, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,626, issued on March 18, was assigned to Kateeva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Nozzle-droplet combination techniques to deposit fluids in substrate locations within precise tolerances" was invented by Nahid Harjee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lucas D. Barkley (Lexington, Ky.), Christopher R. Hauf (Belmont, Calif.), Eliyahu Vronsky (Los Altos, Calif.) and Conor F. Madigan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink printing process employs per-nozzle droplet volume measurement and processing software that plans droplet combinations to reach specific aggregate ink fills per target region, guaranteeing compliance with minimum and maximum in...