ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,588, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Landa Corporation Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Drying ink in digital printing using infrared radiation" was invented by Benzion Landa (Nes Ziona, Israel), Alon Siman Tov (Or Yehuda, Israel), Avraham Guttman (Yavne, Israel), Yefet Nechemia (Givat Koach, Israel) and Amir Shmerling (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes (a) an image forming station including multiple print bars arranged along an axis and configured to apply to a substrate being moved along the axis, droplets of printing fluids having multiple colors, respectively, and (b) multiple dryers, which are mounted o...