US Patent Issued to Xerox on May 27 for "System and method for operating an inkjet printer to attenuate ink drying in the inkjets during printing operations" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,683, issued on May 27, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method for operating an inkjet printer to attenuate ink drying in the inkjets during printing operations" was invented by Varun Sambhy (Pittsford, N.Y.), Jason M. LeFevre (Penfield, N.Y.), Seemit Praharaj (Webster, N.Y.) and Douglas K. Herrmann (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printer and method of operating the inkjet printer ejects ink drops onto coated areas of a media transport exposed in the inter-document zones between successive media sheets passing through a print zone of the printer to maintain the operational status of th...