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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2018
Applicant:
Electronics for Imaging, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 11/66 (2006.01); A41H 3/08 (2006.01); B41F 33/16 (2006.01); D06P 5/30 (2006.01); D06Q 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 3/4078 (2013.01); A41H 3/08 (2013.01); B41F 33/16 (2013.01); B41J 11/663 (2013.01); D06P 5/30 (2013.01); D06Q 1/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods that couple effective nesting of fabric, as part of a textile cutting process, in which designs and/or graphic elements are directly printed on the nested elements, instead of on the entire textile sheet. Embodiments of the invention can address issues of waste and redundant printing, such as by starting with a blank textile roll, and printing only in the geometry areas of the patterns. Embodiments of the invention can increase fabric yield, because there are no constraints between the pattern geometries and the textile sheet print.