ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,946, issued on July 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Yu Hanzawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhito Tsubakimoto (Tokyo), Toshimitsu Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Toru Yada (Kanagawa, Japan), Takao Kawai (Tokyo) and Hiroki Akiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the present disclosure is to implement capturing of mist. One embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus including: a carriage, on which a print head that ejects a liquid is mounted, configured to reciprocate within a predetermined range in a second direction intersecting with a first direction; a ...