ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,790, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sekisui Kydex LLC (Bloomsburg, Pa.).
"Systems and methods for dynamic print head adjustment for sublimation ink printing" was invented by Jeffrey Humenick (Bloomsburg, Pa.), Jym Kauffman (Bloomsburg, Pa.) and Rebecca Gallup (Bloomsburg, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an illustrative embodiment, a processor determines an ink coverage for a portion of an image and retrieves one or more input parameters for the portion. The processor may adjust the height of the print head (i.e., the distance between the print head and a paper where the image is to be printed) based upon the ink coverage and...