ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,169, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Liquid ejecting apparatus" was invented by Mikio Ogawa (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroyuki Tanaka (Inazawa, Japan) and Ryuji Kato (Kiyosu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a head having a nozzle surface in which a nozzle is opened; a wiper configured to move relative to the head in a state that the wiper is in contact with the nozzle surface; and a controller. The controller is configured to move the wiper relative to the head based on a moving velocity determined based on parameters including first paramete...