LEXMARK’s new Kentucky patents
The
U.S. Patent Office issues patents weekly. These patents were issued
Tuesday for inventors in the Lexington area:Compliant media stack
height limiter. Inventors: Niko Murrell, Kimberly Thuringer and David
Hunter, all of Lexington, and Daniel Carter, Georgetown. Patent
7,159,863 assigned to Lexmark International Inc., Lexington.Inkjet
printer spit cup assembly. Inventors: John Funk, Lexington; Terry King,
Versailles, and Bryan Scharf, Richmond. Patent 7,159,964 assigned to
Lexmark.Latch release mechanism for printing apparatus components.
Inventors: Jeffery Buchanan and Steven Komplin, both of Lexington.
Patent 7,159,973 assigned to Lexmark.Process for the continuous
production of aligned carbon nanotubes. Inventors: David Jacques and
Rodney Andrews, both of Lexington. Patent 7,160,531 assigned to the
University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington.Image-forming
device having a door assembly and method of use. Inventors: Jeffrey
Tonges and Harald Portig, both of Versailles; Richard Boyatt III, Larry
Foster, Darren Tosh and Edward Triplett, all of Lexington; Daniel
Carter and David Rennick, both of Georgetown; and Kerry Embry, Midway.
Patent 7,162,182 assigned to Lexmark.Buffed toner metering blade for
use with an imaging apparatus. Inventors: Martin DiGirolamo and Robert
Soto, both of Lexington; David MacMillan, Winchester; Jody McCoy,
Stanton; and Donald Stafford, Georgetown. Patent 7,162,191 assigned to
Lexmark.