ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,107, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Scrona AG (Zurich, Switzerland).
"Inkjet printing system with nozzle evaporator" was invented by Julian Schneider (Muttenz, Switzerland), Martin Schmid (Zurich, Switzerland) and Patrick Galliker (Richterswil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printing system includes a print head with a plurality of ink nozzles arranged in recesses on the print head. Gas from a first gas source is conveyed through first gas ducts and fed to the recesses. An evaporator is arranged along the first gas ducts before the nozzles, saturating the gas with solvent, which prevents undesired evaporatio...