ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,573, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Landa Labs (2012) LTD. (Rehovot, Israel).
"Thermal transfer printing" was invented by Benzion Landa (Nes Ziona, Israel), Sagi Abramovich (Ra'anana, Israel), Amit Haviv (Petach Tikva, Israel), Ofer Aknin (Petach Tikva, Israel), Yaakov Valdman (Rehovot, Israel) and Michael Nagler (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing assembly for thermal transfer printing is disclosed. The assembly comprises at least one first printing system comprising a transfer member having an imaging surface on the front side, a coating station at which a monolayer of thermoplastic particles is applied ...