ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,438, issued on June 17, was assigned to M&R PRINTING EQUIPMENT INC. (Roselle, Ill.).
"Digital-to-garment inkjet printing machine" was invented by Tolga Efendi (Roselle, Ill.), Piotr Latka (Roselle, Ill.) and Stephen Chuddy (Roselle, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of printing ink on a textile including providing a source of white ink; providing a first print head connected to the source of white ink and mounted for reciprocating translational movement through a printing zone; providing a heating source; moving the first print head through the printing zone to apply white ink to a substrate positioned in the printing zone...