US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 10 for "Printing apparatus and maintenance method having a maintenance unit to wipe a discharge port surface wiith a wiping member having a property to absorb inks and a reaction liquid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,028, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and maintenance method having a maintenance unit to wipe a discharge port surface wiith a wiping member having a property to absorb inks and a reaction liquid" was invented by Masaya Uetsuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Keita Ishimi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Rie Takekoshi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus including a printing unit having a first discharge port array with a plurality of first discharge ports in a first direction that discharge first ink, a second discharge port array with a plurality of second discharge ports in the fi...