ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,244, issued on June 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Ink jet recording apparatus" was invented by Kanako Soma (Kanagawa, Japan), Takumi Otani (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiaki Murayama (Tokyo) and Sonoko Egawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink jet recording apparatus includes a cap, a control unit, and a recording unit having nozzle arrays each including a plurality of nozzles for ejecting ink in an image recording operation. The cap receives ink preliminarily ejected from the recording unit. The control unit controls an ejection operation to eject ink in response to receiving a recording command to cause an am...