ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,248, issued on April 15, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Inkjet recorder" was invented by Satoshi Chikazawa (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recorder includes: a drum that is rotatable about a rotation axis and conveys a recording medium; a head unit including an ejection surface that ejects ink that forms an image on the medium conveyed to the drum, the head unit being movable between a recording position at which the ejection surface faces the drum and a cleaning position separated from the recording position in a direction parallel to the rotation axis; and a cleaning unit that is disposed at ...