US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 7 for "Print defect seeding within selected zones for print verification system" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,471, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Print defect seeding within selected zones for print verification system" was invented by Phillip Eugene Miller (Boulder, Colo.) and Carl Michael Dennison (Firestone, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for seeding print defects and inspecting print jobs. One embodiment is a system that includes a print server. The print server includes an interface that receives a test print job, a memory that stores the test print job, and a print controller that determines a number of copies of the test print job to print, subdivides each sheetside ima...