US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on Nov. 4 for "Electrohydrodynamic printer with self-cleaning extractor" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,278, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Electrohydrodynamic printer with self-cleaning extractor" was invented by Lai Yu Leo Tse (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kira Barton (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ethan John McMillan (Grand Haven, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrohydrodynamic printer has a self-cleaning extractor that can cleaning itself during printing. The extractor can be in the form of a metal block or a metal rod along which a layer of cleaning fluid flows from a source of cleaning fluid to a collector. The surface of the extractor along which the cleaning fluid flows...