ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,987, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Yoshinori Osakabe (Seto, Japan), Akihiro Sakakibara (Toyota, Japan), Yuta Arakawa (Nagoya, Japan), Taichi Shirono (Nagoya, Japan) and Fumio Nakazawa (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head including a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is opened; a carriage holding the head and configured to move in the scanning direction; a cap configured to contact the nozzle surface to cover the nozzle in a case that the carriage is located in a first position...