US Patent Issued to Xerox on March 11 for "System and method for using printhead rotation to secure inkjet printing" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,531, issued on March 11, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method for using printhead rotation to secure inkjet printing" was invented by Stuart A. Schweid (Pittsford, N.Y.), David A. VanKouwenberg (Avon, N.Y.), Martin L Frachioni (Rochester, N.Y.) and Linn C. Hoover (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of inkjet printer operation produces a security pattern in a printed document. In one embodiment, the security feature is printed in the document as a line target with printheads that have been rotated so the rows of inkjets in the printhead are not aligned in the cross-process direction. The...