ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,748, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Memjet Technology Ltd. (Dublin).
"Aerosol extractor for inkjet printing system" was invented by James Lawrence (North Ryde, Australia), Glenn Horrocks (North Ryde, Australia) and Sergey Kuzmin (North Ryde, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printing system includes: a printhead positioned over a media feed path; and an aerosol extractor positioned downstream of the printhead relative to a media feed direction. The aerosol extractor includes: an air knife having a knife slot for directing a flow of air towards print media; and a suction nozzle positioned upstream of the knife slo...