US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on June 17 for "Printer with gas extraction of printing fluid from printing nozzle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,417, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Printer with gas extraction of printing fluid from printing nozzle" was invented by Lai Yu Leo Tse (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ethan John McMillan (Grand Haven, Mich.) and Kira Barton (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer is configured to provide a stream of extraction gas that extracts a printing fluid from a printing nozzle. An electrode produces an electric field that accelerates the extracted printing fluid toward a printing substrate. The printer can be configured to selectively turn the electric field and the stre...