ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,665, issued on May 27, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Liquid discharge head" was invented by Keita Sugiura (Toyokawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a channel member having individual channels, each of the individual channels including a nozzle and a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle; and an actuator member arranged on a surface of the channel member and having actuators each of which overlaps with the pressure chamber of one of the individual channels in a first direction orthogonal to the surface, the actuator member including individual e...