ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,745, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Method for preserving ink viscosity in inkjets in an inkjet printer during printing" was invented by Varun Sambhy (Pittsford, N.Y.), Jason M. LeFevre (Penfield, N.Y.), Seemit Praharaj (Webster, N.Y.), Chu-Heng Liu (Penfield, N.Y.), Douglas K. Herrmann (Webster, N.Y.) and Linn C. Hoover (Webster, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an inkjet printer operates solvent vapor generators that direct two flows of solvent vapor towards media on each side of each printhead in the process direction. The solvent vapor attenuates the evaporation of ink s...