ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,031, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejecting apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Takeshi Murase (Kanagawa, Japan), Soji Kondo (Kanagawa, Japan), Koichi Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaki Nitta (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Taira (Tokyo), Hiroshi Kawafuji (Tokyo), Sae Mogi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shunnosuke Koseki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a circulation channel; a circulating pump configured to circulate a liquid in the circulation channel; and a control unit configured to perform control that drives the circulating pump at a ...