ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,944, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"System, method and apparatus of applying, with a printhead of a printing system, ink to a substrate based on a distance the printhead has moved" was invented by Terrell Diane Riley (Summerville, S.C.), Edward Greene (Charleston, S.C.), Frederick B. Frontiera (Rochester, Mich.) and Sean Auffinger (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods provides for technology that applies, with a printhead of a printing system, ink to a substrate as the substrate remains stationary and the printhead moves across the substrate. The technol...