ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,359, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Liquid ejecting apparatus and controlling method for the same" was invented by Satoru Arakane (Nagoya, Japan), Shotaro Iida (Nagoya, Japan), Shin Hasegawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Yasuhiro Nakano (Nagoya, 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; a carriage; a receiver; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: a first flushing processing; a second flushing processing including at least one of a discharge flushing driving and a non-discharge flushing driving of driving;...