ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,662, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Kornit Digital Ltd. (Rosh HaAyin, Israel).

"Digital garment printing machine augmented to apply additional materials" was invented by Lavit Feldman (ShaAr Effraim, Israel), Lior Iagher (Ramat Gan, Israel), Ilan Shmuel Mano (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Jacob Mann (Zoran, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A textile printer with decoration support comprises a track for a printing pallet extending along a first axis, the printing pallet being controllably mobile along the track, a rail for a print head, the rail along a second axis at right angles to the first axis, a digital print head mounted on the...