This inventor holds 1 USPTO granted patent and 1 published patent application. Active years: 2026.
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Years Active: 2026
Title: Nicholas Noel Watkins and Droplet-Based Printing
Introduction
Nicholas Noel Watkins is an inventor based in Brentwood, California. His patent work concerns droplet-based printing and methods for controlling liquid ejection from a gas-pressurized printhead. He is credited with 1 patent.
Latest Patents
Watkins’s patent, “Systems and Methods for Improved Liquid Droplet Ejection from a Gas Pressurized Printhead via Arbitrary Pressure and Vacuum Pulsed Waveforms,” describes a system that uses a controller and a printhead with an internal cavity for holding liquid feedstock. A valve system responds to controller signals by applying vacuum, venting the cavity to the atmosphere, or pressurizing it. These operations create a pressure waveform tailored to the feedstock, enabling a droplet or a material jet that breaks into droplets to be ejected from the nozzle.
Career Highlights
The patent highlights Watkins’s work on controlling printhead pressure to improve liquid droplet ejection. Its approach coordinates pressure and vacuum pulses to accommodate the properties of the feedstock material.
Collaborations
Watkins’s listed coworkers include Viktor Sukhotskiy and Phillip H. Paul.
Conclusion
Nicholas Noel Watkins’s patent focuses on using tailored pressure and vacuum waveforms to control droplet ejection in a gas-pressurized printing system.
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