ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,242, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NOTION SYSTEMS GMBH (Schwetzingen, Germany).

"Method for ink jet printing of a substrate" was invented by David Hahn (Heidelberg, Germany), David Volk (Heidelberg, Germany), Jan Schonefeld (Leimen, Germany) and Carsten Schimansky (Sinsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ink jet printing of a substrate, as well as an ink jet printed layer. To provide a method for ink jet printing of a substrate that is particularly fast and energy-conserving and does not require any systems with high procurement and operating costs, initially a substrate is supplied, which is then coated w...