US Patent Issued to PRINTRONIX on Jan. 28 for "Adaptive ribbon speed control systems and methods" (Singaporean, American, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,635, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to PRINTRONIX LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Adaptive ribbon speed control systems and methods" was invented by Yu-Min Grant Chang (Irvine, Calif.), Robert Ovcharenko (Orange, Calif.), Lee Fang Chong (Skudai Johor, Malaysia) and Ming Ming Yin (Commonwealth Crescent, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to adaptive ribbon speed control for a line matrix impact printer are provided. A ribbon cartridge includes a ribbon configured to be driven at a ribbon speed, and a ribbon gear configured to rotate with movement of the ribbon. The ribbon includes a ribbon joint patch detecta...