ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,415, issued on June 17, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Liquid droplet ejecting apparatus" was invented by Hirofumi Kondo (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus, includes: an ejecting head having an ejecting surface, the ejecting head being configured to eject liquid droplets onto a print target based on image data, the print target including a parallel surface and an inclined surface; a distance detector which detects a distance between the ejecting surface and the parallel surface and a distance between the ejecting surface and the inclined surface; and a controller. If t...