ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,669, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Recording apparatus" was invented by Shunya Sunouchi (Tokyo) and Masahito Yoshida (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus includes a liquid container configured to contain, outside a recording area of the recording apparatus, liquid to be supplied to a recording head configured to perform recording by discharging the liquid to a recording medium in the recording area, a maintenance unit disposed outside the recording area, including a suction unit configured to suck the liquid from the recording head, and configured to carry out maintenance of th...